To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at, but after all, what do they get for it? Softer cushions, better meat, more outward thoughtfuls, maybe medals... that is all. And to think that there are found serious men who consume their whole existence in the pursuit and the expectation of these trivialities.


Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937)

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To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at, but after all,...

To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at, but after all,...

To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at, but after all,...

To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at, but after all,...