Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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