So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Helping others Man as social animal

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Medium

Paper

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Lay Morals. c. 1872.

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The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic
Adventure The open road

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1894 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Youth and Love." Songs of Travel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 3.

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Man is a social animal.

Baruch Spinoza

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Man as social animal Nature of man

Author

Baruch Spinoza
Source
Ethics
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
1677 1670s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 4, prop. 35, note.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 4, prop. 35, note.