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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.