Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

Baltasar Gracian

• Men
• May
• Evil
• Mistake
• Gold
• Slavery

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

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• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

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• I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

  

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• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

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• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

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• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

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• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

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• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

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• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

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• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

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• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

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• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

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• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

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• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

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• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

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• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

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• There is a paradox. In retaining this integrity, the writer sometimes must risk both the state's indictment of treason, and the liberation forces' complaint of lack of blind commitment.

  

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• Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

  

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• I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.

  

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• Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Men
  • May
  • Evil