When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Baltasar GracianFolly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you canโt be good, be careful.
Baltasar GracianNo' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.
Baltasar GracianDo not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
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