Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.