The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
A long-circulating form of the thought — wording may vary by translator or commonplace book.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Goethe
The Commonplace