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Nobility Is Defined By The Demands It Makes On Us - By Obligations, Not By Rights. Noblesse Oblige. 'to Live As One Likes Is Plebeian; The Noble Man Aspires To Order And Law.'

The Difficulties Which I Meet With In Order To Realize My Existence Are Precisely What Awaken And Mobilize My Activities, My Capacities.

This Leads Us To Note Down In Our Psychological Chart Of The Mass-man Of Today Two Fundamental Traits: The Free Expansion Of His Vital Desires, And, Therefore, Of His Personality; And His Radical Ingratitude Towards All That Has Made Possible The Ease Of His Existence. These Traits Together Make Up The Well-known Psychology Of The Spoilt Child.

Beliefs Constitute The Basic Stratum, That Which Lies Deepest, In The Architecture Of Our Life. By Them We Live, And By The Same Token We Rarely Think Of Them.... One May Symbolize The Individual Life As A Bank Of Issue. The Bank Lives On The Credit Of A Gold Reserve Which Is Rarely Seen, Which Lies At The Bottom Of Metal Coffers Hidden In The Vaults Of The Building. The Most Elementary Caution Will Suggest That From Time To Time The Effective Condition Of These Guaranties--of These Credences, One Might Say, That Are The Basis Of Credit--be Passed In Review.

An 'unemployed' Existence Is A Worse Negation Of Life Than Death Itself.