True Work is the necessity of poor humanity’s earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
It’s really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label… Most people don’t have any dignity in the first place.
I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing-his sense of personal dignity.
