Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world as invalids pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live my life is for itself, and not for spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I ask for primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from a man to his actions.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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