“The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away ”
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.”
“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
“Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”
“He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.”
“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.”