What would it be like to be a donkey? To be driven by a stick, to carry burdens, to have no choice? It would be a simple life, wouldn't it?
Stoic philosopher, former slave
Discourses, Book I, Chapter 9 (rhetorical, philosophical point, slightly adapted for humor)
c. 108 AD
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