You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
The truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our […]
The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
Ought is not a word we use to other people. It is a word we should reserve for ourselves.
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting evey toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss.
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn’t, and when it does, we may well reject it.
To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.
