A Quote by Plato

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

Some would define a servant like this: 'A servant is one who finds out what his master wants him to do, and then he does it.' The human concept of a servant is that a servant goes to the master and says, 'Master, what do you want me to do?' The master tells him, and the servant goes off BY HIMSELF and does it. That is not the biblical concept of a servant of God. Being a servant of God is different from being a servant of a human master. A servant of a human master works FOR his master. God, however, works THROUGH His servants.

Henry Blackaby

Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

Lucullus

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Gretchen Rubin

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Agatha Christie

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Francis Bacon

You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

Mark Driscoll

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

Charles G.D. Roberts

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Amory Lovins

Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

Aldo Leopold

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

Gretchen Rubin

Yes, the car is still useful - for a few people it's essential. It would make a good servant. But it has become our master, and it spoils everything it touches.

George Monbiot

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Plato

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

Amory Lovins

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Agatha Christie