The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.