African Spir Quote

The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not find its full satisfaction in the conventional and deceitful world, in which everyone is mostly trying to assert oneself in front of others, to appear, and hoping to find in society relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity.

p. 53. - Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937)