“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy cast off this drapery, and omitting all compliment and com

Two: the world will almost certainly pull you in the direction against your own genius. “Society, everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members,” he laments. Emerson makes it clear that in the face of societal pressure, we will be tempted to ignore our own genius and instead conform to the current norms and standards d

2. It is true, everyone likes to act as they please and prefers those who are like-minded.