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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
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Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.
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Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
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Man should beware of letting his religion spoil his morality.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone II, 185 -
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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