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Daily Piece of Wisdom

   Posted by: Aurelius   in Pieces of Wisdom

Courtesy of DANEgerus:

“In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free.”

– Edward Gibbon

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