Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

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.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Always act as if you were seen !.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.