Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.