“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
— William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Polonius's advice to his son Laertes in Shakespeare's Hamlet (c. 1600), one of the most famous injunctions to authenticity in Western literature.
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