 The most free of all men,' said I, ' is he whose freedom slavery itself cannot take away. He, and he only, is free in every country and in every condition, who fears the gods, and whose fear has no other object. In other words, he...  The adventures of Telemachus. Tr. by J. Hawkesworth - Page 55by François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (abp. of Cambrai.) - 1785Full view - About this book
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