quote · Words worth keeping
Be first the master of yourself
Be first the master of yourself
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Baltasar Gracián
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1629 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1601–1658); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Spanish writer; lifetime dates supplied by Joseph Jacobs’s historical introduction to the 1892 translation. Historical edition attribution, not independent quotation authentication.
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