Make people depend on you. Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. The wise person would rather see others needing him than thanking him. To keep them on the threshold of hope is diplomatic, to trust to their gratitude boorish; hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. More is to be got from dependence than from courtesy. He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well, and the orange once squeezed falls from the golden patter into the waste-basket. When dependence disappears, good behavior goes with it as well as respect. Let it be one of the chief lessons of experience to keep hope alive without entirely satisfying it, by preserving it to make oneself always needed even by a patron on the throne. But do not carry silence to excess lest you go wrong, nor let another's failing grow incurable for the sake of your own advantage. 《处世之道——300则永恒的人间智慧》，Baltasar Gracian 著 |
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