Translations
He is the master of every other person who is able to confer or remove whatever that person wishes either to have or to avoid.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
A man's master is he who is able to confer or remove whatever that man seeks or shuns.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
He is the master of every man who has the power over the things, which another person wishes or does not wish, the power to confer them on him or to take them away.George Long (1890)
Each man's master is the man who has authority over what he wishes or does not wish, to secure the one or to take away the other.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)