One's emotional state is always determined by the oddest and most accidental things, and it is precisely the most superficial factors that often fortify or diminish our courage. Beware of Pity
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. Seneca's Morals
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
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. Animal Farm
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