Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
Baltasar GracianAdvice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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.
Baltasar Gracian