independence Quotes

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.