Herodotus Quotes
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Herodotus
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Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.
Larry Flynt
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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
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I'm an indestructible master of war.
David Draiman
Disturbed
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
Rachel Grace Held
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The person seeing perfection is the Master.
Baird T. Spalding
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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
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
William Hazlitt
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Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
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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
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The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.
Rene Descartes
