Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.
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.
I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.
When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
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.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
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.
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.