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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Plotinus
Plotinus
Plotinus
Born: 205
Died: 270

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Beasts, Poised, Between, Gods, Midway, Mankind

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Albert Camus, Aristotle, Confucius, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, Plato, Socrates, Sun Tzu
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. Plotinus
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. Desmond Tutu
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