Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Reason is the servant of instinct.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
He who dares not reason, is a slave.