independence

control

is like honor, a rocky island without a beach.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island without a beach

is loyalty to one's best self and principles such that it often amounts to disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. Mark Twain

is not for everyone. It is the privilege of the strong few who are made for it.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong. Friedrich Nietzsche

is reserved as a privilege of the strong few.

It is the business of the very few to be independent... it is a privilege of the strong. Friedrich Nietzsche

is only capable of being found in dependence on God.

Dependence on God is the only independence . . .

is the business of the very few... it is a privilege of the strong.

is the mark of one who knows how to conserve oneself.

One must know how to conserve oneselfthe best test of independence. Friedrich Nietzsche

is not concerned with the greatness of a man's means but with the smallness of his wants.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.