Plato, Laws 902b

πράττειν ὧν δὴ πράττουσιν, διά τινας ἥττας ἡδονῶν ἢ λυπῶν οὐ ποιεῖν; πῶς γὰρ ἄν; οὐκοῦν δὴ τά γε ἀνθρώπινα πράγματα τῆς τε ἐμψύχου μετέχει φύσεως ἅμα, καὶ θεοσεβέστατον αὐτό ἐστι πάντων ζῴων ἄνθρωπος; ἔοικε γοῦν. θεῶν γε μὴν κτήματά φαμεν εἶναι πάντα ὁπόσα θνητὰ ζῷα, ὧνπερ καὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν ὅλον. πῶς γὰρ οὔ; ἤδη τοίνυν σμικρὰ ἢ μεγάλα τις φάτω ταῦτα εἶναι

owing to their being somehow defeated by pleasures or pains? Impossible. Do not human affairs share in animate nature, and is not man himself, too, the most god-fearing of all living creatures? That is certainly probable. We affirm that all mortal creatures are possessions of the gods, to whom belongs also the whole heaven. Of course. That being so, it matters not whether a man says that these things are small or great