“The person who does not know how to put up with others should retire into himself, if indeed he can suffer even himself.”

— Baltasar Gracián, book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

El que no se hallare con ánimo de sufrir apele al retiro de sí mismo, si es que aun a sí mismo se ha de poder tolerar.
Maxim 159 (p. 90)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

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