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I think that when friendship and perception of kinship ruled everything, no one killed any creature, because people thought the other animals were related to them.

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The utility of a science which enables men to take cognizance of the travellers on the mind's highway, and excludes those disorderly interlopers, verbal fallacies, needs but small attestation.

Things essentially incorporeal, because they are more excellent than all body and place, are every where, not with interval, but impartibly.

Every good thing is gentle and consistent, progressing in good order and not going beyond what is right.

The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.

Soul, indeed, is a certain medium between an impartible essence, and an essence which is divisible about bodies.

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All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.

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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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