Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Either a beast or a god.
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
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