Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Know or listen to those who know.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.