Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Edith Hamilton
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More Quotes By Edith Hamilton
  1. Love cannot live where there is no trust.

  2. It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of...

  3. I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we...

  4. The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

  5. The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

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