"A dog has the soul of a..." - Quote by Plato

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”

“It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.”

“The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.”

“I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.”

“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.”

“I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.”

“In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.”

“My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight.”

“There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.”