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Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice.
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“Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice.”

Epictetus

Source
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Date
c. 125
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Hastings Crossley — Translator and arranger · from Ancient Greek
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Meaning of “Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of…”

Freedom is treated as an ethical condition of character rather than simply the absence of external restraint.

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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying X, Hastings Crossley translation.

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