“Tell Alcaeus I send him my best, that I miss him...”
I took my letter to Alcaeus and read it aloud in his library.
“I’m afraid it is serious this time,” I said.
“It is always serious, when we speak out,” said Alcaeus, laying his palms flat on the desk.
“He says it is dangerous for him to come here.”
“He must learn restraint!”
“And you, Alcaeus, do you think you have learned restraint?”
There was silence and then he said:
“Those of us who are free must speak, or there will be no freedom, no free men left to restrain those who think in terms of chains.”
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