A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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.
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.