Freedom and slavery · Atlas

spoken of as

1 expression

Slavery and freedom“moral sense”2 mentions

Letters to Lucilius (Latin) · Alcibiades 1 (Greek)

Freedom cannot be bought.

letter 80 ¶

in the texts

Against TimocratesClassical · Greek

The legal and civic distinction between free citizens and slaves.

If, then, you decline to punish the men before you, in a very little time the People will be in slavery to those beasts of prey.

against timocrates ¶

If, gentlemen of the jury, you will turn over in your minds the question what is the difference between being a slave and being a free man, you will find that the biggest difference is that the body of a slave is made responsible for all his misdeeds, whereas corporal punishment is the last penalty to inflict on a free man.

against timocrates ¶

Alcibiades 1Classical · Greek

The moral distinction between slavishness, associated with vice and being ruled by inferior forces, and freedom, associated with virtue and self-mastery.

And virtue becomes a free man.

alcibiades 1 ¶

So vice is a thing that becomes a slave.

clouds ¶

And we should shun, my good friend, all slavishness?

alcibiades 1 ¶

Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

The idea that moral slavery consists in fear of death, poverty, and circumstance, while true freedom is self-won.

Freedom cannot be bought.

letter 80 ¶

For life, if the courage to die is wanting, is slavery.

letter 77 ¶

And what better can you wish than to snatch yourself from this slavery which weighs on all, which even slaves of the lowest condition, born in this filth, strive by every means to throw off?

letter 80 ¶

AnabasisClassical · Greek

Conceptual contrast used to describe subjugated enemies, Xenophon's vulnerability, and the army's regained choices.

You hold me in your power, then, and not as a captive that you have taken in flight or as a runaway slave;

chapter 7 ¶

Why, for my part I think I have abundant satisfaction as it is, if these people are to be slaves instead of free men.

chapter 7 ¶

And you, at the moment when such abundant freedom reveals itself to you, when you are sailing to the very place where you have long been eager to go and the mightiest are suing for your aid, when pay is within sight and the Lacedaemonians, who are deemed the most powerful leaders, have come to lead you—do you, I say, think that now is the proper time to put me to death with all speed?

chapter 7 ¶