“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”
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One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten, ' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
