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He alone is entitled to ask for help or mercy--which is a form of help--who himself shows pity, spares life, eschews cruelty, and grants mercy to the helpless and oppressed, who does not, in Plutarch's phrase, "allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being."

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 106