“When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.”– Adam Weishaupt Related Quotes “He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.”– Aristotle “Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”– Honore de Balzac “The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”– John Milton