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“The source of self-burden … is pride, that is, that spontaneous elevation above ordinariness which the Greeks called thymos. By this they meant an inner hearth of stirring impulses that motivates people to reveal themselves to their surroundings as bearers of giving virtues. … Freedom has mostly been sought in places where it cannot possibly be found … In truth, freedom is only another word for nobility—that is, for the disposition that, under all circumstances, orients itself toward what is better, toward what is more difficult—precisely because it is free enough for the less probable, the less vulgar, the less all-too-human. In this sense, freedom is availability for the improbable. … Freedom is the opposite of everything intended by those who understand it as a license to let oneself go into the ordinary, the all-too ordinary.”
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