It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.