“Do not be too much a slave of others' opinions of you!”

— Adolph Freiherr Knigge , book Über den Umgang mit Menschen

Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
Context: Do not be too much a slave of others' opinions of you! Be self-sufficient! Why, in the end, does the opinion of the whole world trouble you, if you do what you should?

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Sei nicht zu sehr ein Sklave der Meinungen andrer von dir! Sei selbständig! Was kümmert dich am Ende das Urteil der ganzen Welt, wenn du tust, was du sollst?

Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

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German writer and Freemason 1752–1796

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