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To accept a favor is to sell your freedom. — Publilius Syrus

Epigram

To accept a favor is to sell your freedom.

In the original Latin

Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere.

Publilius Syrus
Sententiae · 43 BC
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Topic
Favors
Statement type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Medium
Epigram
Time
43 BCClassical antiquity
Person
Publilius Syrus
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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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