Book: How to control slaves

People cannot be controlled without rewarding their efforts, and for a slave the best reward is food.

It is unfortunate that in the world we now live in, there are more and more Christians.

If a person is not capable of independent goal-setting and responsibility for his own decisions and actions, then who is he?

In fact, the true slaves are those who behave morally unworthy, regardless of whether they were born slaves or free.

Christians are themselves slaves.

It is a sad fact of today that everywhere in the empire you see land being cultivated by slaves and not by free farmers as in the old days. But it was the free farmers who made Rome great with their labor! Nowadays, feet shackled in chains walk through the estates; the land is cultivated with hands that work under a stick; Branded faces look at you. Mother Earth is not so stupid as not to notice that proud and free peasants have been replaced by arrogant and lazy slaves.

Hope helps us endure any suffering. Hopelessness can lead to desperate measures.

... the day may well come when you will have an owner.

The worst thing for a household is if its slaves live in dungeons that look like prison cells, because everything that is done by people who have no hope for the best is done extremely poorly.

To understand what makes a slave a slave, you need to understand what makes a master a master...

Diogenes generally had only one slave, who ran away from him, and when he was informed about the whereabouts of the slave, he did not even think of returning him. “It would be shameful,” Diogenes remarked, “if my slave could do without me, and I could not do without him.”

There are more slaves in the world today than there were in the Roman Empire at any time during its existence!

In fact, somewhere deep inside we are all slaves. Someone is a slave of sex, another is a slave of money, the third is an uncontrollable strive for fame, being its slave, the fourth is a slave of high status. We are all slaves of hope and fear.

Slaves, like ordinary free people, work poorly if good work does not bring benefits, and bad work is punished.