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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.

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Steven Pressfield (born September 1943) is an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays.

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