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Quotation from Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie

“as we say, to cleave Wood, Wedges are made of the Wood itself”

Étienne de La Boétie (spoken by La Boétie)

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, the chain of dependents, trans. Anonymous (1735)

A proverb summing up how the tyrant governs his subjects by means of one another.

Citation: "as we say, to cleave Wood, Wedges are made of the Wood itself" — Étienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, the chain of dependents, trans. Anonymous (1735). (id discourse-on-voluntary-servitude-q6)

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