"As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall." — Dante Alighieri

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily… — Saint Augustine
• What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and… — Diane Ackerman
• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
• Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do. — Brigitte Bardot
• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. — Aeschylus
• I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset. — Cate Blanchett
• We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not… — Daniel Boone
• Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and… — Robert Browning
• As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes… — A. S. Byatt
• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws… — A. S. Byatt
• A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. — Albert Camus

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