A Quote by Aesop

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Aesop

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Bad Fire Good Masters Our Passions Servants Water

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

Aesop

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Roger L'Estrange

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Aldous Huxley

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

E. F. Schumacher

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

E. F. Schumacher

Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

Jeff Cooper

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

John Gay

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Dallas Willard

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.

Otto von Bismarck

Good servants frequently make good masters.

Jupiter Hammon

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.