Sublime

Married people have the whole burden of life to bear, while the unmarried have only half, was a characteristically selfish apothegm. Had not all the true philosophers been celibates-Descartes, Leibnitz, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Kant? The classic writers were of course not to be considered, because with them woman occupied a subordinate position.

It is what a man has thought out directly for himself that alone has true value.

—LUDWIG VON MISES, AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST AND AUTHOR OF HUMAN ACTION

All genuine merit, moral as well as intellectual, is not merely physical or empirical in its origin, but metaphysical; that is to say, it is given a priori and not a posteriori; in other words, it lies innate and is not acquired, and therefore its source is not a mere phenomenon, but the thing-in-itself. Hence it is that every man achieves only

I am.

Un homme riche ainsi à l’intérieur ne demande au monde extérieur qu’un don négatif, à savoir du loisir pour pouvoir perfectionner et développer les facultés de son esprit et pour pouvoir jouir de ses richesses intérieures ; il réclame donc uniquement la liberté de pouvoir, pendant toute sa vie, tous les jours et à toute heure, être lui-même. Pour

financial capital, the intangible capital that exists only in law.