Sublime

The improvement of man can be measured by the level of his inner freedom. The more a person becomes free from his personality, the more freedom he has.

He had said the very thing that her soul desired but that her reason feared.

ignoble,

There are people who take responsibility for making decisions for others and determining their relationship to God and to the world; and there are people, the overwhelming majority of them, who give this authority to the others, and blindly believe in everything they are told. Both groups of people commit an equal crime.

Put at least half of your energy into making yourself free of empty wishes, and very soon you will see that in so doing you will receive much greater fulfillment and happiness. —After EPICTETUS