"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think!
This rule (equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life)
May serve the whole distinction between__ greatness or meanness?
This rule (equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life)
May serve the whole distinction between__ greatness or meanness?
It is the harder, because you will always find those who think
... they know what is your duty, better than you know it.
... they know what is your duty, better than you know it.
It is easy in the world: to live after the world's opinion;
It is easy in solitude: to live after our own opinion;
But the great man is he__ who in the midst of the crowd,It is easy in solitude: to live after our own opinion;
Keeps with perfect sweetness__ the independence of solitude."
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