"From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason."
— Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
True freedom, for a Stoic, is not the ability to do whatever one wants, but the unwavering commitment to act in accordance with reason and justice, regardless of external pressures or temptations. It is an internal state of principled integrity.