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“Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8a46698d1780a243c19cad60976a897a93584a564e46a7e7947191f53823e8ee
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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