To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.