Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cu… - Baltasar Gracián

moral cowardice lowers one more than physical. Many have had eminent qualities, yet, for want of a stout heart, they passed inanimate lives and found a tomb in their own sloth. Wise Nature has thoughtfully combined in the bee the sweetness of its honey with the sharpness of its sting. lv

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.