Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Judgment
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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.
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Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
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Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
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