When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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