The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try, you’ll often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
― Rudyard Kipling, Beware the tribe

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who is always after more.

— Seneca

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

— Oscar Wilde