A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
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He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.
People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it.
You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.