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

—Homer, c. 750 BC

Animals are good to think with.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—Erich Fromm, 1947

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

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

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.

—Thomas Hobbes, 1651

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

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

—Erasmus, 1511

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.

—Anna Sewell, 1877

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

—Cicero, 45 BC

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

—John Florio, 1578

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

—François Rabelais, 1535

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. 

—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821