Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. 

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.

Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.