The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,... - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
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"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
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