“I prefer nothing but that they act like themselves, and I like myself.”

Reported by Marcus Tullius Cicero in a letter to Atticus.
Variant translations:
There is nothing I like better than that I should be true to myself and they to themselves.
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Nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse et illos sui.

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