Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilisation until man realises that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
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