It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Men are fantastic - as a concept.
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