Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Never Give In!
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd. Psychology of the Unconscious
“Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying.” 1984
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness, Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. The Vanished City
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