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- Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
- From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other…
- For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God…
- Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
- I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's…
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