Are we not servants & slaves ?

Show me a person who is not a servant; One is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all people are slaves to fear.

No servitude is more disgraceful than that which is self-imposed.

Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters. And as often as you reflect how much power you have over a servant, remember that your master has just as much power over you.

Each person acquires their character for themselves, however accident assigns their duties; I propose to value them according to their character, and not according to their duties.

They are not your enemies when you meet them; we make them our enemies.

That which annoys us does not necessarily injure us; however we are driven into wild rage, so that whatever does not answer our whims arouses our anger.

Badness is fickle, & changing not for the better, but for something different; however a mark of good character: is in forming your own judgments and abides by them.

On Master and Servants