It's hard to have a Southern overseer; even harder to have a northerner, worst of all, though, is to be slave traders themselves.
[...] The public has a very weak tyrant, compared to our personal opinion.
[...] The majority of men live in quiet desperation. This which is called resignation is despair strengthened.
many luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only unnecessary but also real obstacles to the moral elevation of man. As for luxuries and comforts, the wisest have always led a simple life and that of the wretched poor.
[...] No one can see human life with greater wisdom and impartiality that the location offered by a poverty that we define as a voluntary choice.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things that can do without.
[...] "I am monarch of all I look at \\, and no one disputes my right"
[...] What is the difference between being relegated to a farm or in a county jail?
I find it wholesome to be alone for most of the time. Being in the company, even the best, just cause trouble and disturbances. I love being alone.
[...] For the most part, we are more lonely when we go out among men than when we stay in our room. A man who thinks or working is always alone.
[...] Usually the company is too little. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and offer each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
Causes earn a living is not a job, but fun. Enjoy the land, but does not possess.
I believe that every man who has always been sincere in to keep in better conditions than their high and poetic faculty has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food and lots of food of any kind.
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