“Reach perfection.
No one is born that way. Perfect yourself daily, both personally and
professionally, until you become a consummate being, rounding off your gifts
and reaching eminence. Signs of the perfect person: elevated taste, a pure
intelligence, a clear will, ripeness of judgment. Some people are never
complete and are always lacking something. Others take a long time to form
themselves. The consummate person—wise in speech, prudent in deeds—is admitted
to, and even desired by, the singular society of the discreet.”-Baltasar
Gracián, The Art of
Worldly Wisdom
