Etienne de la Boetie
Étienne de La Boétie (ou Estienne de La Boetie was a French judge, writer and "a founder of modern political philosophy in France". He is best remembered as the great and close friend of the eminent essayist Michel de Montaigne "in one of history's most notable friendships", as well as an earlier influence for anarchist thought.
Étienne de La Boétie (or Estienne de La Boetie est un écrivain humaniste et un poète français. La Boétie est célèbre pour son Discours de la servitude volontaire. À partir de 1558, il fut l’ami intime de Montaigne, qui lui rendit un hommage posthume dans ses Essais.
“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
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“لا يوجد في العالم من يشعر بالمسؤولية عن الفساد الذي يقع في الأرض وإنما ينسبه إلى الآخرين.”
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“J'aime ce qui me nourrit : le boire, le manger, les livres.”
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“Soiés resolus de ne servir plus, et vous voilà libres.”
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“It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, itpromptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedomthat it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it,obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that thispeople has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.”
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