William Hazlitt Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
Birthday: April 10
Death: September 18
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
source: William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”
topic: Sacrifice, Vanity, Self, Spleen, Self Opinion
