“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.”
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
