Lucius Annaeus SenecaLucius Annaeus Seneca, (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, "Seneca the Younger"

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote

“Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.”

Lucius Annaeus SenecaLucius Annaeus Seneca
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Letters to Lucilius ,65 A.D.

Ratings and Comments


Mike, Norwalk

In context, accurate enough. The quote does lend a semblance of substance to Patrick Henry's: "Give me liberty or give me death." It is a very sad situation when patrons of the current occupying statist theocracy infesting this land would rather have political correctness, freebees, an unrealistic / unsustainable economy, compelled compliance, government licenses, victimless crimes, larceny with impunity (2nd plank of the communist manifesto, Social Security, police state confiscations, etc.), non-recogniton of individual sovereign status and inalienable rights, etc., etc., etc. rather than liberty.

jim k, Austin

Mike said it well.

Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown

Not a coordinated quote, for the quality of your freedom behaviors correlates with the quality of all of your  life's behavioral patterns. 

Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown
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Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown 9/6/25

Mental health notes: To deal with the ill atmosphere they have assembled, the vast conventional populous continually misrepresent and confound every phase of the life proceedings. The mentally ill actively try to make the mentally ill look mentally healthy and the healthy mentality look ill.  The healthy mentality try to appropriately coordinate the life procedure. 

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