Quotes with enslaving

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• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

  Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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• The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

  Bernard Berenson
  American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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• There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

  Joseph De Maistre
  French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disenchanting
• chimerical
• philosophy
• oppressing
• restrains
• wonderful

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