Sound Points of Advice by Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracián 
(January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658)

The following are sound points of advice taken from three hundred maxims set down by Baltasar Gracian, a Jesuit scholar who lived in seventeenth-century Spain:

1. Know your best quality.
2. Never exaggerate.
3. Adapt to those around you.
4. Associate with those you can learn from.
5. Don’t be tiresome.
6. Plan for a bad future while your future is good.
7. Don’t talk about yourself.
8. The wiser do sooner what fools do later.
9. Never complain.
10. Don’t live in a hurry.
11. Follow through on your victories.
12. Quit while you are ahead.

THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.