Seneca Self-Imposed Slavery

According the Seneca, a Roman philosopher, self-imposed slavery is disgraceful beyond all others since the individual has chosen to be a slave to something, unlike the one who becomes purchased into slavery and has no choice. For example, Seneca tells Lucilius, “Show me a man who isn’t a slave” (The Norton Anthology World Literature, pg. 939) Seneca states that people allow themselves to become a slave to sex, money, ambition, or even to another person, and we are each a slave to something in one way or another.
Also, Seneca believes that self-imposed slavery is an option and more disgraceful than all others. Slaves to a master are not choosing to become a slave, however, he receives worse treatment than the one who chooses to be a slave
to sex, money, ambition, or another person. Whereas Seneca explains that no state of slavery can be above the one which is self-imposed, he expresses the difference between making a choice and being forced to become a slave are entirely different. (The Norton Anthology, pg. 939)