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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
May 18, 1692
Died:
June 16, 1752
(aged 60)
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