Thank goodness we don't understand the language of ravens, jackdaws, crickets, frogs, and pigs. Otherwise we'd probably worry about what they think too. Yet how many people seem more brainless than the frogs and the jackdaws? Does that make any difference to us? No. We let what they say upset us and render our lives utterly miserable.


Dio Chrysostom, Dion of Prusa or Dio Cocceianus (ca. 40–ca. 120) was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the first century. 200 BC (?) His Meditations