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“Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“... where there is one slave there are always twohe who wears the chain and he who rivets it.”
—Jeanne De Hericourt (18091875)
“Tyranny produces two results, exactly opposite in character, and which are symbolized in those two great types of the slave in classical timesEpictetus and Spartacus. The one is hatred with its evil train, the other meekness with its Christian graces.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
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