It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
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How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
The classes and the masses.
The classes and the masses.
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as
to shun myself.
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as
to shun myself.
