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.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


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...

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...

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...

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...