Imagine a dog tied to a cart. If the dog wants to follow, it follows, adding its own will to the inevitable. But if the dog refuses to follow, it will be dragged along anyway.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
Discourses, Book I, Chapter 24 (analogy, not a direct quote but a common interpretation)
c. 108 AD
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