He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
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