“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.”
Apologia, i
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIV - The Life of the World to Come
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