Baltasar Gracián: Never act in a Passion. If you do, all is lost. You cannot act for yourself if…
Never act in a Passion. If you do, all is lost. You cannot act for yourself if you are not yourself, and passion always drives out reason.
In today’s wordsNever act in the grip of passion, or all is lost. You can't act for yourself when you're not yourself, and passion always drives out reason.
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