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If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

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Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of it. 'If it was done with such assurance and eve...more

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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found ...more

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These prin­ciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man...more

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It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcel...more

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This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity—that o...more

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But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to e...more