A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
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.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
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