If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men.
Ordinary persons find no difference between men.