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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Étienne de La Boétie

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Born: November 1, 1530
Died: August 18, 1563 (aged 32)
Bio: Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French judge, writer, and "a founder of modern political philosophy in France.

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