“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness…”

“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Title: Wikiquote: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Part III, Ch. VIII, 7, p. 223

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Arthur Schopenhauer. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer

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