“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

“A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.”

“Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.”

“Whatever pain you can't get rid of, make it your creative offering.”

“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”

“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

“If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.”

“The violence of beast on beast is read
As natural law, but upright man
Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.”