Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Life is short, yet sweet.
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.