Baltasar Gracian Self Quotations

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

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.