“Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.”
“So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us.”
“But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.”
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
“One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.”
“Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.”