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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
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.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
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.
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?
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.