“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
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“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
— Terry Pratchett, book The Truth
Source: The Truth
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“There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.”
Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar
Veganism: The Fundamental Principle of the Abolitionist Movement, http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/veganism-the-fundamental-principle-of-the-abolitionist-movement/ <br class="br">Context: There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.
