When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Baltasar GracianKnow what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
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