What would it be like to be a sheep? To have no reason, no sense of shame, to be driven by instinct alone? It would be terrible, wouldn't it?
Stoic philosopher, former slave
Discourses, Book I, Chapter 9 (paraphrased for comedic effect, original is more serious)
c. 108 AD
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