Herodotus Quotes

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

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• Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Jews
  • Slaves
  • Neurotics

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• I'm an indestructible master of war.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • War
  • Masters
  • Indestructible

• We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Spirit
  • Masters
  • Letters

• The person seeing perfection is the Master.

  

  Baird T. Spalding
  • Persons
  • Perfection
  • Masters

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Peace
  • Rich

• ‎In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a huge money-making machine. This does nothing for human dignity, freedom, and genuine well-being. Wealth should serve humanity, and not the other way around.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"

  

  Tony Bennett
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Live
  • Moments

• Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Trust

• The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Running
  • Body
  • Masters

• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Humility
  • Masters

• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  

  Socrates
  • Wealth
  • Desires
  • Wars

• Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Slave

• Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Nature
  • Property
  • Slaves

• Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Men
  • Masters
  • Ordinary

• The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Ego
  • Masters
  • Demands

• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Fate

• Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is what man has been; of law, what he does; of physiology, what he is; of ethics, what he ought to be; of revelation, what he shall be.

  

  George Finlayson
  • Literature
  • Mankind
  • Historical

• As the book writer for one big smash and one big smelly flop, I always wondered if anyone knows just what goes into making a great musical. When a show is a hit, the critics trip over themselves not knowing who to laud and applaud the loudest. It's that marvelous score, those urbane lyrics, that irreplaceable star. But only when a show is a flop, does anyone notice the book writer. And then it's always our fault.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Star
  • Show
  • Book writer

• We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Song
  • Care
  • Laugh

• Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

  

  Herodotus
  • Masters
  • Slaves