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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

A useless life is an early death.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Be not simply good – be good for something.