The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but – what is worse – the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
¶ City of God, Bk. IV, ch. 3
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Christian church father and philosopher [b. Aurelius Augustinus]
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