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

Life is no way to treat an animal.

What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?

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

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.

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. 

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.