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“To lead good, happy lives, we need to be able to focus on the book most important to us now. This means to stop reading some and never to start reading others. When we dwell only in possibility, we get nowhere. Doing what has intrinsic value to us helps us decide which books are right for us. It gives us a clear selection compass for which direction we should go in and which we should avoid.”
― Chris Masi, Stop Chasing Carrots: Healing Self-Help Deceptions With a Scientific Philosophy Of Life

“Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.”
― Baltasar Gracián