My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not li…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). The Portable Nietzsche, p.332, Penguin
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