He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.