Know or listen to those who know. – Baltasar Gracian
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. – Baltasar Gracian

Know or listen to those who know. – Baltasar Gracian
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. – Baltasar Gracian
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. – Baltasar Gracian
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. – Baltasar Gracian
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away. – Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac