As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

[So weit Deine Selbstbeherrschung geht, so weit geht Deine Freiheit.]

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian writer
Aphorisms [Aphorismen], No. 534 (1880)
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(Source (German)). Alternate translation:

Freedom stretches as far as your self-control.
[tr. Scrase/Mieder (1994)]


 
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