Live as if you don't need the world or worldly things. Live like someone alone on a mountain. It doesn't matter where you are—here or there—if the whole world is just one town. Let people see a real man living according to human nature. If they can't stand you, let them kill you. It's better to die than to live the way they want you to.
So live as indifferent to the world and all worldly objects, as one who liveth by himself alone upon some desert hill. For whether here, or there, if the whole world be but as one town, it matters not much for the place. Let them behold and see a man, that is a man indeed, living according to the true nature of man. If they cannot bear with me, let them kill me. For better were it to die, than so to live as they would have thee.