"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?"

"Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"If you want to be a man of leisure, don't be a slave to your desires."

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."