Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men exist for the sake of one another.
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Men tend to be selfish.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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