They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.

No person is free who is not master of himself.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Freedom: to walk free and own no superior

You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.

Words are our servants, not our masters.

No one was my master — but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

For lack of rules (which the undisciplined sector of the young call freedom) 3 sets masters over one which are more tyrannical [D] than the teachers and trainers familiar from childhood – these masters are the desires, when they have broken out of prison, so to speak.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.