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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
Someone who can be, and therefore is, owned by another, and who understands reason but doesn't fully possess it, is a natural slave.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
