authenticity Quotes

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.