"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master."
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"The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves"
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"Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom."
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"A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave."
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"One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison."
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"When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people.""
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"All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen."
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"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave."
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"To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders.""
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"You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination."
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"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."
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"All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!"
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"To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason."
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"Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans"
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"Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart."
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"You are a slave of what you need in your soul."
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"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave."
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"The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave."
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"I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom."
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"The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor."
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