Eliud Kipchoge (1984) Kenyan long-distance runner
Eliud Kipchoge (2018) cited in: " Eliud Kipchoge & David Bedford | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc00mDtzIJU" in Oxford Union, 5 January 2018.
Eliud Kipchoge (1984) Kenyan long-distance runner
Eliud Kipchoge (2018) cited in: " Eliud Kipchoge & David Bedford | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc00mDtzIJU" in Oxford Union, 5 January 2018.
“Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.”
Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted by Stobaeus, iii.1.18
James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894) Indian judge
A General View Of The Criminal Law Of England (1863)
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
As quoted in The New Dictionary of Thoughts : A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, Alphabetically Arranged by Subjects (1957) by Tryon Edwards, p. 510
“None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Florilegium, XVIII, 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 368
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
As translated by Nicholas Rowe(1732)
No man is free who cannot command himself.
As quoted in Moral Encyclopaedia, Or, Varlé's Self-instructor, No. 3 (1831) by by Charles Varle
No man is free who cannot control himself.
As quoted in 25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life (2006) by Linda Elder and Richard Paul
Florilegium
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Letter to the Editor, Dublin Daily Express (27 February 1895)