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

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

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.

Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.

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

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

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

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

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.