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?

Life is no way to treat an animal.

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

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.

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. 

Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.

A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.

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. 

Animals are good to think with.

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

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.