“But it would be enough that, when riding beasts, they behave like men and not like beasts.”
Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) King of Portugal
Part II
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French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist 1934Related quotes
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“No wild beasts are so dangerous to men as Christians are to one another.”
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“A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.”
Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene
Canto 12, stanza 37
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book V
“Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.”
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Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
30 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Act 11, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)