Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ It is a High Degree of Inhumanity not to have a Fellow-feeling of the Misfortune of my Brother; but to take Pleasure in my Neighbours Misery, and to make Merry with it, is not only a Brutal, but a Diabolical Barbarity and Folly. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ In this very Moment: comes a Hawk, and whips away the Sparrow; which gave the Dying Hare this Consolation in her last Distress, that she saw her Insolent Enemy overtaken with a just Vengeance, and that the Hard-Hearted Creature that had no Pity for Another, could obtain, none for her self neither, when she stood most in need on’t. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ The weaker are a Prey to the Stronger, and so one under another, through the whole Scale of the Creation. We ought therefore to have a Fellow-feeling of one anothers Affictions; for no Body knows whose Turn may be next. ”
