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"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." »Helen Keller
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"I am a galley slave to pen and ink." »Honore' de Balzac
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"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man." »Frederick Douglass
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"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little." »Horace
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"Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience." »Hasidic Saying
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"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own." »Emerson
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"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself." »Seneca
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"Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other." »George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
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"He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave." »Sir William Drummond
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"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave." »Sir William Drummond
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"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool." »Seneca
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"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune." »Jean De La Bruyere
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Create like a god. Command like a king. Work like a slave!" »Constantin Brancusi
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"Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave." »Euripides
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"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave." »Cato, Roman statesman and historian
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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave." »Andrew Carnegie
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"Mannon is the largest slave-holder in the world." »Frederick Saunders
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"I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are it's master once you utter it, you are it's slave." »Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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"For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you." »Madeline Bridges
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"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown." »Albert Camus
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"Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave." »George Gurdjieff
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"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee
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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas
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"Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit" »Heinrich Heine
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