Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. - Baltasar Gracian
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
- Baltasar Gracian
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure. - Baltasar Gracian
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth. - Baltasar Gracian
Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. - Baltasar Gracian
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them. - Baltasar Gracian
No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.
Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not. - Baltasar Gracian
Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. - Baltasar Gracian
Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody. - Baltasar Gracian
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love. - Baltasar Gracian
Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.
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