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SOME FRAGMENTS. see to it that you do not yourself have slaves. For if you endure to have slaves, it seems that you yourself are first of all a slave. For evil has no communion with virtue, nor freedom with slavery.

HE cruel chain of the body is circumstance; of the soul, vice. Now he who is loosed in the body but bound in the soul is a slave; but he who is bound in the body but loosed in the soul is free.

S one who is in health would not choose to be served by the sick, nor to have sick people about him, so no one who is free would bear to be served by slaves, or that those living with him should be slaves.

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