independence Quotes

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

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.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

O imitators, you slavish herd!