When it comes to question the general assumptions and quotations of old, and
perhaps once wise men, it's important to question what is being said. Using
your own brains for thinking is indeed more than welcome as while the author
might have been a genious, it doesn't mean that they got it right, does it
now?

When it comes to freedom, many things are said and some obvious points are
left behind. No matter what you do in the world, you are always bound to rules
and regulations, thus disabling the ability to be free. When we say free, we
should say we are 'entitled to being free from certain things.' Being free, in
the end, would be to be able to decide what we do or do not do. Inevitably we
are not free, as we are bound by gravity and other aspects of physic which we
are unable to counter in any way. To be free, is to have a choice to be free
of them.

Some say that death sets us free, yet that is hardly true. You are forced to
die one day, you don't really have a choice. Now, to be truly free would be to
have your world, world where you are able to control every aspect. Now that my
friends is truly freedom, and madmen are closest to being truly free.