The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The first citation appears in a 1946 translation of Leo Tolstoy's Recollections and Essays by Oxford University Press. The claim made that it is from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations, nor does it appear in a 1904 translation of Bethink Yourselves. The other surrounding quotations from Kant also appear to be attributed or do not exist.