The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.