“One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.”
“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”
“To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.”
“The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?”
“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”
“One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes”