"Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress."

"If you wish for nothing, you will be free."

"For there is some use even in an ass, but not so much as in an ox: there is also use in a dog, but not so much as in a slave: there is also some use in a slave, but not so much as in citizens: there i…"

"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? Tranquillity, fearlessness, freedom."

"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?"