"The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins."
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"If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple."
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"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."
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"...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen."
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"Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave."
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"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."
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"God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience."
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"If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality."
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"Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property."
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"Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave."
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"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear"
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"A man in debt is so far a slave."
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"You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master."
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"Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time."
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"We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history."
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"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."
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"Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave."
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"Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave."
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"For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise."
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"Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave."
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