A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
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