“likely that the Discourse was written in 1552 or 1553, at the age of twenty-two, while La Boétie was at the university”
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Étienne de La Boétie
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his relationship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
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culture · French judge, writer and philosopher (1530–1563) · philosopher · judge · poet · French moralist · writer · politician · also Étienne de La Boétie, Étienne De La Boétie, Etienne de la boetie, Etienne De La Boetie, On Voluntary Servitude, Boétie
Born 1 November 1530 · Died 18 August 1563 · Q290227
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Died 1563-08-18.
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“Uma coisa é certa, porém: os homens, enquanto neles houver algo de humano, só se deixam subjugar se foram forçados ou enganados.”
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“A primeira razão da servidão voluntária é o hábito: provam-no os cavalos sem rabo que no princípio mordem o freio e acabam depois por brincar com ele; e os mesmos que se rebelavam contra a sela acabam por aceitar a albarda e usam muito ufanos e vaidosos os arreios que os apertam.”
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“Tomai a resolução de não mais servirdes e sereis livres.”
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Born 1530-11-01.
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