Those Who Deny Freedom To Others Deserve It Not

What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Receive without pride, let go without attachment.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.