Peter Gan

“Believe your heart, especially when it's already tried and tested. Never contradict it, for it can usually foresee what matters most. It is your private oracle.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Be open to suggestion, no one is so perfect that they may not need advice from time to time.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“The art of leaving things alone. Especially when the seas of public or personal life are stormiest. There are whirlwinds in the affairs of men, tempests of the will, and it makes good sense to retire and wait things out in a safe harbour... Let nature or morality take its course.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies