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It Would Be A Piece Of Ingenuousness To Accuse The Man Of Today Of His Lack Of Moral Code. The Accusation Would Leave Him Cold, Or Rather, Would Flatter Him. Immoralism Has Become A Commonplace, And Anybody And Everybody Boasts Of Practising It.

The Good Is, Like Nature, An Immense Landscape In Which Man Advances Through Centuries Of Exploration.

Imagine For A Moment That Each One Of Us Takes Only A Little More Care For Each Hour Of His Days, That He Demands In It A Little More Of Elegance And Intensity; Then, Multiplying All These Minute Pressures Toward The Perfecting And Deepening Of Each Life By All The Others, Calculate For Yourselves The Gigantic Enrichment, The Fabulous Ennobling Which This Process Would Create For Human Society.

Nobility Is Defined By The Demands It Makes On Us - By Obligations, Not By Rights. Noblesse Oblige. 'to Live As One Likes Is Plebeian; The Noble Man Aspires To Order And Law.'

Rancor Is An Outpouring Of A Feeling Of Inferiority.