Balance Benutzen / Use Er / He Erwerben / Acquire Genau / Exactly Gerade / Just Glücklich / Fortunate Hält / Holds Mann / Man Messen / Measure Nimmt / Takes Recht / Right Selbst / Himself Tatsächlich / Indeed Wer / Who Zwischen / Between
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
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.
How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
