If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king

Every noble activity makes room for itself

Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a slave. Because living constantly in the atmosphere of slaves, he became infected through the unconscious with their psychology. No one can shield himself from such an influence.