"One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."
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"I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave."
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"If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right."
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"The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king."
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"Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods."
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"Finance is a slave's word."
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"No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is."
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"I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen."
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"But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself."
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"He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave."
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"The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master."
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"Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break."
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"This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave."
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"Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave."
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"Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!"
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"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it."
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"I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution."
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"Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave."
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"I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave"
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"Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor."
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