“Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.”

Stobaeus, iii. 13. 44
Quoted by Stobaeus

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them." by Diogenes of Sinope?

Diogenes of Sinope33

ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic… -404–-322 BC

Stobaeus Ancient Greek anthologist

iii. 13. 44
Quotes by and about Diogenes

“Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

As quoted by Anna Freud in the preface to the (1981) edition of Topsy: The Story of a Golden-Haired Chow by Princess Marie Bonaparte.
Attributed from posthumous publications

“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”

Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.

“The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.”

Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron

Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.
Sixth Day, Third Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)