Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer,
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The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer,
that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul,
that moment they are free.
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Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul,
that moment they are free.
[Lat., Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliae fines penetraverint
eodem momento liberi sunt.]

Life without the courage for death is slavery

Life without the courage for death is slavery

I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
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I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth
That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit in read more

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.]