The Art of Worldly Wisdom (24)

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Keep your imagination under control; sometimes correcting, sometimes assisting it. For it is all-important for our happiness, and even sets the reason right. It can tyrannise, and is not content with looking on, but influences and even often dominates life. It can make us happy or burden us, according to the folly to which it leads. For it makes us either content or discontent with ourselves. Before some it continually holds up the penalties of action, and becomes the mortifying lash of fools. To others it promises happiness and adventure with blissful delusion. It can do all this unless the most prudent self-control keeps it in subjection.

《处世之道——300则永恒的人间智慧》，Baltasar Gracian 著