"Never lose your self-respect or grow too familiar with yourself. Let your own integrity keep you righteous. You should owe more to the severity of your own judgment than to all external precepts. Avoid what is indecorous, not because others will judge you harshly, but because you fear your own prudence. Grow to fear yourself and you will have no need of Seneca's imaginary witness."
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián. Trans. Christopher Maurer.
(Seneca's imaginary witness is your own conscience.)
(Seneca's imaginary witness is your own conscience.)
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