“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.

For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

A dog reflects the family life.

A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.