Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
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