HALF the world laughs at the other half, even though the lot are fools. Either everything is good, or everything is bad, depending on the vote; what one sues, another pursues. An insufferable fool, he wishes the universe regulated according to his plan. Bliss does not derive from the pleasure of any one man: for there are as many minds, as there are heads, and as different; there is no weakness without its admirer, so be not discomfited because your ways displease some, for they will not fail to be pleasing to others: nor let their approval of them make you vain, for still others will condemn them. Proper satisfaction may be taken only in the approval of men of authority, and by those who have standing in their fields. Do not live by the sanction of any one voice, or of any one custom, or of any single period.
--Aphorism 101, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Baltasar Gracian
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