“But it would be enough that, when riding beasts, they behave like men and not like beasts.”

“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.”

“The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us!”
Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!

“Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.”

“[Choir of] Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
[Choir of] Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.”

“What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.”

“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”

“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”

“Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,
Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.”

“Hearts of people are like wild beasts. They attach themselves to those who love and train them.”