Slavery Proverbs (52 Proverbs)
- He who renounces his ancestrey is like a slave.
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- The same rain that drenches the slave also drenches the slave driver.
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- A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the immoral.
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- Who is made to slave should do it with pleasure.
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- Better the grave than a slave.
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- The excessively kind-hearted person becomes a slave.
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- If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave
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- To be a public man is slavery.
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- Better an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
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- A slave must be humble.
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- It's better to eat a mushroom in freedom than to eat meat in slavery.
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- Having little knowledge is like having your hands tied around your neck like a slave.
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- Debt is slavery.
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- Work like a slave and eat like a gentleman.
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- Fire is a good slave, but a bad master.
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- When the heart acts the body is its slave.
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- He who is a slave of truth is a free man.
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- Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market.
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- Seven days king, seven days minister, slave for the rest of your life.
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- He who carries too much tenderness will become a slave.
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- When a slave mounts a camel he wants to ride on both humps.
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- The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.
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- Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
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- Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king.
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- You are still a slave if only your limbs are free.
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- He who revealeth his secret maketh himself a slave.
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- Rather be a slave to a rich man than the spouse of a poor man.
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- If you call a lady a slave, she laughs, but if you call a slave a slave, he cries.
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- He who works as a slave, eats as a king.
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- For the first five years of your son's life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.
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- God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.
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- Better in the grave than be a slave.
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- Every lover is a slave: he follows captive at his mistress's heels.
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- No one is free who is a slave to his body.
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- A sword in the hands of a drunken slave is less dangerous than science in the hands of the unscrupulous.
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- A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.
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- Rather free in a foreign place than a slave back home.
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- It is better to be a free man in a small house than a slave in a big one.
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- The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.
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- A son should be treated as a prince for five years as a slave for ten years but from his sixteenth birthday, as a close friend.
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- Better to be a poor woman than the slave of the rich.
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- Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
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- Words spoken, you are a slave to those not said, you are the master of.
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- Your five year old son is your instructor; at ten your slave; at fifteen your equal and after that either friend or foe.
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- The person who has been a slave from birth does not value rebellion.
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- Benefits make a man a slave.
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- Voluntary work is better than slavery.
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- Poverty is slavery.
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- A king or a slave.
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- A slave has no choice.
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- A slave does not choose his master.
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- Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.
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