I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be
It?s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.