Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon Quotes

He [man] Abuses Equally Other Animals And His Own Species, The Rest Of Whom Live In Famine, Languish In Misery, And Work Only To Satisfy The Immoderate Appetite And The Still More Insatiable Vanity Of This Human Being Who, Destroying Others By Want, Destroys Himself By Excess.

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