The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.

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

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.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.