Everyone holds views according to his interest, and imagines he has abundant grounds for them. For with most people judgment has to give way to inclination. It may occur that two may meet with exactly opposite views and yet each thinks to have reason on his side, yet reason is always true to itself and never has two faces. In such a situation a prudent person will proceed with care, for his judgment of his opponent’s view may cast doubt on his own. Place yourself in the other person’s place and then investigate the reasons for his opinion. You will not then condemn him, or justify yourself in such a confusing way.

Balthasar Gracian

And in hell all misery. On earth, between the two, both one thing and the other. We stand between the two extremes, and there fore share both. Fate varies – all is not good luck nor all mischance. This world is merely zero – by itself it is of no value - but with heaven in front of it, it means much. Indifference at its ups and downs is prudent, nor is there any novelty for the wise. Our life gets as complicated as a comedy as it goes on, but the complications get gradually resolved – see that the curtain comes down on a good denouement.

                                                                Balthasar Gracian

Keep stirring it up.

Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

Do not rest your whole fortune on a single cast of the dice.

It requires great skill to moderate your forces so as to keep expectation from being dissipated.

Balthasar Gracian