Happiness is a warm puppy.

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

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?

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

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.

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

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

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

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

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.

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. 

Who hears the fishes when they cry?