Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Even a woman may be good, and also a slave; though the woman may be said to be an inferior being, and the slave quite worthless.
Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
