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The many still must labor for the one! It is nature's doom. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) There is nothing so good to make a horse fat, as the eye of his master. - Laertius Diogenes It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. - Dionysius of Halicarnassus The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later. - Ralph Waldo Emerson We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven. - Francois de Salignac Fenelon Mastery is often taken for egotism. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders. - Plato (originally Aristocles} It is not only paying wages, and giving commands, that constitutes a master of a family, but prudence, equal behavior, with a readiness to protect and cherish them, is what entitles a man to that character in their very hearts and sentiments. - Sir Richard Steele
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