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If every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, [...]; if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves.

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Popularly simplified to "when the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves".

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The wise man must not be ordered but must order, and he must not obey another, but the less wise must obey him.

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