" Fable of the Dog For in the Days when Beasts and the Sheep, could speak, her Sheep said to a Mailer, You are a strange Man, we yield you Woo J Lambs, and Cheese, and yet you give us nothing but what we can get upon the Ground: And the Dog, who brings you in no Profit, is kindly used, for you feed him with the same Bread you eat your self. The Dog over-hearing this Complaint, answered her: It is not without Reason that I am used so well: It is I who protect you; it is I who hinder Thieves from stealing you away, and Wolves from fucking your Blood: "

― Xenophon , Conversations of Socrates