“Man is a biped without feathers.” — Plato
“Drinking when we are not thirsty and making
love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other
animals.” — Pierre Beaumarchais
“Man is the only animal that can remain on
friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” — Samuel
Butler
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps,
for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what
things are and what they ought to be.” — William Hazlitt
“Homo sapiens is the species that invents
symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are
inventions.” — Joyce Carol Oates
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