Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Most men are fragile.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Free men are the strongest men.
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
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