It is the Stoic doctrine that there can be no question of right as between man and the lower animals, because of their unlikeness. Thus Chrysippus in the first book of his treatise On Justice, and Posidonius in the first book of his De Officio.
Further, they say that the wise man will feel affection for the youths who by their countenance show a natural endowment for virtue. So Zeno in his Republic, Chrysippus in book 1 of his work On Modes of Life, and Apollodorus in his Ethics.
—Diogenes Laërtius, 7.129
IMAGE: Bartolomeo Passarotti, Portrait of a Man with a Dog (c. 1585)
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