“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.”
The Farmer Refuted (1775)
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As quoted in Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm (2009), "Linnaeus and homo religiosus," Universitet, p. 83.

Lecture, April 6, 1969 - Emmanuel, God with Us
Christ
Improvement Era (October 1958) pp 718-719
Context: Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency. When thou didst create man, thou placed within him part of thine omnipotence and bade him choose for himself. Liberty and conscience thus became a sacred part of human nature. Freedom not only to think, but to speak and act is a God-given privilege.

“For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.”
Aliquando enim et vivere fortiter facere est
Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales, transl. Richard M. Grummere, 1920 ed., Epistle LXXVIII, pp. 181-182
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind

“The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity’s prime characteristic.”
Es ist der Menschheit eigen, dass sie sich über die Menschheit erheben muss.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991) § 21