Servitude Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Servitude


It is fit and necessary that some persons in the world should be in love with a splendid servitude. South.	1
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. Garrick.	2
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her. Seneca.	3
Slavery is as ancient as war, and war as human nature. Voltaire.	4
Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force. Marguerite de Valois.	5
All are born to observe laws; few are born to establish them. Carlyle.	6
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us. Sir P. Sidney.	7
To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince. Saadi.	8
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People’s characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little. Shenstone.	9
Men in great places are thrice servants,—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so that they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. Bacon.	10