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Date: w. 56-64
"It is a mistake to imagine that slavery pervades a man's whole being; the better part of him is exempt from it: the body indeed is subjected and in the power of a master, but the mind is independent, and indeed is so free and wild, that it cannot be restrained even by this prison of the body, wh...
preview | full record— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
Date: w. 56-64
"It is, therefore, only the body which misfortune hands over to a master, and which he buys and sells; this inward part cannot be transferred as a chattel."
preview | full record— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
