Baltasar Gracian Self Quotations

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.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

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

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