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The man who constantly tries to make other persons over into a copy of himself, who tries to change their living habits or thinking-ways into the same as his own, who seeks zealously to proselytize their religious beliefs, is too often merely asserting his own ego and practising a subtier, more self-deceptive form of egotism. If he really felt love for them, as he often professes, he would leave them their freedom to choose what suits them.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 473