Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
The ends must justify the means.
Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.
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.
Nature moves towards balance.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.