Variant translation: Now slavery has a certain likeness to death, hence it is also called civil death. For life is most evident in a thing's moving itself, while what can only be moved by another, seems to be as if dead. But it is manifest that a slave is not moved by himself, but only at his master's command.
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On The Perfection of the Spiritual Life https://www.pathsoflove.com/aquinas/perfection-of-the-spiritual-life.html (1269-1270)
Original: (la) Vita enim in hoc maxime manifestatur quod aliquid movet se ipsum; quod autem non potest moveri nisi ab alio, quasi mortuum esse videtur.
Summa Contra Gentiles, III,130,3
Bk. 3, Ch. "Like They Say, It's Bounce Or Break"
The Shockwave Rider (1975)
1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
Context: The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
1770s, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
Source: A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
Source: The 20th century capitalist revolution. 1954, p. 113-114; as cited in Prashker (1954)
Section III, "Of Civil Liberty"
Essay on the First Principles of Government, 2nd Edition (1771)
