Either you run the day or the day runs you. Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose,
so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. To be truly and really independent is to support
ourselves by our own exertions. It is easy in the world to live after the world's
opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is
he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude.
Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to
wish for but to attain.
If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am for myself alone,
then what am I? And if not now, when?
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The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your
own arm.
Interdependency
follows independence. 