“A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.”

— African Spir

Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 44.

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Russian philosopher 1837–1890

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