Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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.
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.