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Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.


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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
SALLUST Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.

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SALLUST Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the des...
ALBERT GRAY All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
THOMAS à KEMPIS The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much i...
STENDHAL It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
ARISTOTLE The vast majority of our customers have no need and no desire to be programming their robots. But th...
HELEN GREINER If life is a curse, then few are cursed with littleness, majority with mediocrity and rare ones with...
DR HITESH C SHETH What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel...
HENRY MILLER What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their belie...
HENRY MILLER What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel...
JOHN STUART MILL What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their belie...
HENRY MILLER The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.
RICHIE NORTON The majority of people still haven't felt the results of economic reform and aren't satisfied with o...
BORIS YELTSIN For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and a...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The majority of men are bundles of beginnings
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
BALTASAR GRACIáN The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
BENITO MUSSOLINI Wimbledon needs to do the right thing and finally pay the women the same as the men. Players won't b...
VENUS WILLIAMS The vast majority of owners desire this annexation and request R-1 (residential, minimum 1-acre lot ...
GARY HILL Life is like a tango; fortunate are the few who can master it.
A.J. GARCES The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I hear many condemn these men [Founding Fathers] because they were so few. When were the good and th...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much i...
HENRI B. STENDHAL If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.
KABIR However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woma...
PAULO COELHO It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES F. COOPER Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /heal...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.
IRIS CHANG Men of few words are the best men.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimite...
WALTER LIPPMANN A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD are currently satisfied with the status quo, [I am] not satisfied with the status quo.
CARL ICAHN The acts of the minority are affecting the majority and causing the closure of public lands. Just be...
BARB ANDERSON By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER It's worth about a half-billion dollars now. He had magazine publishing, too, with Liberty. It's iro...
QUINCY JONES The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and t...
ASHTON EATON No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the U...
ANDREW JACKSON Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
G. K. CHESTERTON Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a cr...
TIFFANY MADISON I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liber...
DON YOUNG Smartass Disciple: Master, what will happen to the men right after their death ?
Master of Stup...
TOBA BETA The minutes indicate a majority that feels satisfied with the current economic climate. The Bank not...
GAVIN REDKNAP I definitely care. I'm very competitive, but I am satisfied with my delivery and that I only missed ...
C.C. SABATHIA Men of few words are the best men."

(3.2.41)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a ...
PAULO COELHO By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
THOMAS AQUINAS By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men...
ELMER DAVIS This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men...
ELMER DAVIS We are satisfied with the outcome.
FRANK MATELJAN A few honest men are better than numbers.
OLIVER CROMWELL A few honest men are better than numbers
OLIVER CROMWELL I preferred measuring deer tracks, to tape-that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then ...
SAM HOUSTON I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
GARY LINEKER Though I think the majority of students are going to be responsible, there's a few who're going to a...
DON COTE I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of L...
DON YOUNG You will never be satisfied until you are completely satisfied with God.
JERRY KINARD While women are still the majority of shoppers, I think men hold out a hope for a better retail year...
ANNETTE MCEVOY Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes...
, DISSENTING, OLMSTEAD V. UNITED STATES, 277 US 479 (1928) You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty,...
RICHARD ENGEL All men have One Master, the Maker.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA There are a few horror stories here and there. The majority of the players have been very down to ea...
CHRIS GAUDREAU Judge Lipscomb is the one in the position to determine his (Conrad's) sentence, and we're satisfied ...
MARIA MILLER We are fully satisfied with the agreement.
ALEXEI MILLER We are very satisfied with the agreement,
JOAN LAPORTA People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied wit...
AMIT KALANTRI The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.
RUSSELL PEARCE The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having rea...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having rea...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. You are the Universal Father of all, O my Lord and Master. Your nine treasures are an inexhaustible ...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The folks who are here from New Orleans, we know the majority of them are law abiding citizens. We k...
ALVIN WRIGHT He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE We have got a group of swimmers who are not just satisfied with making the team any more. They expec...
BILL SWEETENHAM The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
HUMPHREY BOGART As the President said in his Inaugural Address, the people of the world have a desire to live in lib...
TODD AKIN We know we can't just be satisfied with this.
JEFF PENDERGRAPH The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their boo...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Some guys are satisfied with that,
TERRY ANDERSON A lot of individuals who had been detained spoke of liberty and gratitude toward this country and a ...
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VOLTAIRE In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few excepti...
SIGMUND FREUD Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. ...
RICHIE NORTON Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty ch...
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B. R. AMBEDKAR The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active...
JOHN STUART MILL

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