He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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