Tuesday, December 23, 2003
 
Advice to Leave...or Take

Never cry about your woes. Making lamentation only discredits you; to better purpose, as an example of boldness against passion, than one of timidity under compassion; to lament is to open the way to the very thing of which you complain - a sour gift for the listener. Giving notice to a first insult makes way for a second. Complaining of injustice past makes way for more. By crying for pity we gain only sufferance - or contempt. It is better politics to laud the generosity of one; laying the obligation of the same upon another. To recite favors done by those absent is to compel them from those present. This is to sell the esteem in which you are held by one, to another. Publish not the slights or wrongs you have suffered, but only the honor in which you are held, for it will serve better to constrain your friends and restrain your enemies - have you one or the other or both...or most sadly/splendidly, neither.


- posted by -g @ 10:16 AM | | 0 rocks in pond



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