I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity.
Indifference Quotes
My dear, I don’t give a damn.
Indifference may not wreck a man’s life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
Indifference is a militant thing… when it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children’s pastime like mere highway robbery.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man can have.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
