Excellence Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

— Publilius Syrus

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

— Octavia Butler

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

— Wilson Mizner

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

— Saint John Chrysostom

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

— Diogenes

Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

— Lysander Spooner

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

— George Bernard Shaw

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave…

— Aristotle