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Our Sense Of Power Is More Vivid When We Break A Man's Spirit Than When We Win His Heart.

Resistance, Whether To One's Appetites Or To The Ways Of The World, Is A Chief Factor In The Shaping Of Character.

The Fear Of Becoming A 'has-been' Keeps Some People From Becoming Anything.

Man Is A Luxury-loving Animal. Take Away Play, Fancies, And Luxuries, And You Will Turn Man Into A Dull, Sluggish Creature, Barely Energetic Enough To Obtain A Bare Subsistence. A Society Becomes Stagnant When Its People Are Too Rational Or Too Serious To Be Tempted By Baubles.

A Heresy Can Spring Only From A System That Is In Full Vigor.