A person of rectitude clings to the sect of right with such tenacity of purpose that neither the passions of the mob nor the violence of the tyrant can ever cause him to transgress the bounds of right. But who shall be such a Phœnix of equity? What a scanty following rectitude has! Many praise it indeed, but — for others. Others follow it till danger threatens; then the false deny it, the politic conceal it. For it cares not if it conflicts with friendship, power, or even self-interest: then comes the danger of desertion. Then astute people make plausible distinctions so as not to stand in the way of their superiors or of reasons of state. But the straightforward and constant regard dissimulation as a kind of treason, and set more store in tenacity than on sagacity. Such people are always to be found on the side of truth, and if they desert a party they do not change from fickleness, but because the others have first deserted truth. 《处世之道——300则永恒的人间智慧》，Baltasar Gracian 著 |
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