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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. - Joseph Addison


More: If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all, why then perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes. [A Man for All Seasons] - Robert Bolt


Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P. J. O'Rourke


Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. - Plato [Platon]


The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. - Alice Walker


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


Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. - Orison Swett Marden


The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. - Sir Rabindranath Tagore


A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. - Albert Schweitzer

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