And here I cannot but remark how strange it is, first, that any man can remain a slave rather than die; and secondly, how much stranger it is that any other man, himself a slave, can be found to hunt down or to hang his fellow; yet the tyrants never lack executioners.

Their castles are crowded with retainers who wreak their wills upon the defenceless.

These retainers do not wear the brazen bracelet; they are free.

Are there, then, no beggars?
Yes, they sit at every corner, and about the gates of the cities, asking for alms.
Though begging makes a man forfeit to the State, it is only when he has thews and sinews, and can work.

The diseased and aged, the helpless and feeble, may break the law, and starve by the roadside, because it profits no one to make them his slaves.