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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake ...more

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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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Mento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If...more

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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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I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

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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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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