Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."
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Debtors
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Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven."
Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor."
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"Every novel is a debtor to Homer."
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"Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around."
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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto."
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"Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor."
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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession."
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"All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women."
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"Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor."
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"When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor."
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"Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe."
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"Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest."
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