Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men must know their limitations.
Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.