They know not the time for sowing, tilling, or for reaping in season and gathering in the fruits of the earth, or for laying up and preserving their stores.

Man alone has the care and advantage of these things.
LXIII.

Thus, as the lute and the pipe were made for those, and those only, who are capable of playing on them, so it must be allowed that the produce of the earth was designed for those only who make use of them; and though some beasts may rob us of a small part, it does not follow that the earth produced it also for them.

Men do not store up corn for mice and ants, but for their wives, their children, and their families.

Beasts, therefore, as I said before, possess it by stealth, but their masters openly and freely.