Dependence Quotes

There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.[On cesse de s’aimer si quelqu’un ne nous aime.]

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.[La plupart des hommes sont riches de la science d’autrui; il peut fort bien arriver à quelqu’un de citer un beau trait, une bonne réplique, une belle sentence, et de les mettre en avant sans en saisir toute la portée.]

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas in holiday time.