He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Thomas Fuller (physician)

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Topic

Loving others Empathy Trees Man and nature

Author

Thomas Fuller (physician)

Source

Gnomologia

Language

English

Time

1732 1730s 18th century

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Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Fuller, Thomas. Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, And Witty Sayings. London: B. Barker, 1732, no. 2248.

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Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature

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Topic
Acquisitiveness The human condition

Author

David Hume
Source
A Treatise of Human Nature
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1739 1730s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.

Current Citation

Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.