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Alexander Pope1 quote
Teach me to feel another's wo,
To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me. — Alexander Pope · 1738Milan Kundera1 quote
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. — Milan Kundera · 1984William Shakespeare1 quote
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. — William Shakespeare · 1597