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Quotes about Living being

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

Adi Sankaracharya
Source: Tattva bodha of Sankaracharya, Page: 88
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He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: Sayings of the Buddha in The Dhammapada, v. 270
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