Served

Famous quotes containing the word served:

“Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“It was not sufficient for the disquiet of our minds that we disputed at the end of seventeen hundred years upon the articles of our own religion, but we must likewise introduce into our quarrels those of the Chinese. This dispute, however, was not productive of any great disturbances, but it served more than any other to characterize that busy, contentious, and jarring spirit which prevails in our climates.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)