Take away play, fancies and luxuries and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence.
Eric Hoffer
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Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.
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The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
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