“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Source: Browning's Paracelsus: Being the Text of Browning's Poem
“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”
— Ovid, book Epistulae ex Ponto
II, ix, 47
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
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