'...How can one renounce the faith for which one has lived? That is to renounce life. What is the good of labouring to think thoughts other than one's own, to be like one's neighbour or to meddle with his affairs? That leads to self-destruction, and no one is benefited by it. The first duty is to be what one is, to dare to say: "This is good, that bad." One profits the weak more by being strong than by sharing their weakness. Be indulgent, if you like, towards weakness and past sins. But never compromise with any weakness....'
from The New Dawn by Romain Rolland, part ten of his Jean Christophe sequence, translated by Gilbert Cannan (Part III)
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