“Better wicked Lucifer for a master, thought I, than a pious Tyrant!”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 361)
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From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.”
August 22
Debates in the Federal Convention (1787)
Context: Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.
“Love is a better master than duty.”
“This to a tyrant master sold
His native land for cursed gold.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 215
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
“It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many.”
Proposals for a New Law Code (1768)
“I just thought it was better to be Pete Best than Linda McCartney”
On her departure from Suede
Elastica Limits interview, March 10th 2002 by Andrew Smith, The Guardian http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,664759,00.html