Thoughts Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. Our life is what our thoughts make it. Thoughts are free and subject to no rule - on them rests the freedom of man; they tower above the lights of nature - creating a new source of energy from which new wisdom flows. The wise man is always free; he is held in honor - he is always master of the laws. The law is not made for the just, but for the unjust. The just man is a man unto himself; for his knowledge is born out of adversity, tempered by experience, and matured with age. The greatness of man lies in the power of his thoughts.