
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 471.
Maxim 847
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 471.
“Freedom is worth paying for.”
La liberté vaut qu’on la paye.
Part II, ch. VIII: Vigo Bay
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose