Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“What dost thou think most humane?—To spare a person shame.”
- Source
- The Joyful Wisdom
- Date
- 1910
- English wording
- Thomas Common — Translator; Paul V. Cohn — Poetry renderer; Maude D. Petre — Poetry renderer · from German
Meaning of “What dost thou think most humane?—To spare a…”
The compact answer makes restraint from humiliating another person a test of humane conduct and sensitivity to dignity.
Where does it come from?
The Joyful Wisdom, aphorism 274; Thomas Common translation.
