Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give. A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
This is a beautiful description of the ideal man, one who has become ridiculed in my modern age [2020], where women declare their superiority and independence from men, emasculate young boys during their formative years, seeking to make them more efeminent, leaving youth with nowhere to turn for appropriate role model. I fear that their masculinity will fall into that accepted by that defined by the gang.
