On Self-Reliance Part III

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" - it's not just about being honest but instead not feeling hypocrisy within ourselves

- Emerson has a deep seated belief that all humans are good
- everything for him is trivial and changes overtime
- don't act like you're good if you're not actually good (don't act like something you aren't)

 virtues: honorable or good qualities about someone

- sometimes people aren't good, but they make a good deed to make up for it
- not only do people stop speaking like themselves, we get tired of saying "no"
- "For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure"
- it's the people around us that gives us the most inspiration and pressure
- people of a certain temperament, won't attack you but will explore
"the game's bigger than the player"