Humanity
[...] It is this feeling of benevolence for all people, which only rekindles in a large and sensitive soul. This noble and solemn enthusiasm takes care of the suffering of others and the need to alleviate them; she wants to travel the world to abolish slavery, superstition, vice and misfortune. [...] She snatches the weapon from the villains that could be the good people's undoing. She does not entice us to get rid of our obligations, but makes us - on the contrary - to better friends, better husbands, better citizens. It gives her pleasure to divide charity amongst all beings that nature has placed next to us. I have noted this virtue, a source of so many other virtues, in many people's minds, but only in a few hearts. - Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
