Baltasar Gracian quotes

Baltasar Gracian quotes

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“Know or listen to those who know”
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“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself”
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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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“Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn’t being applauded when you arrive for that is common but being missed when you leave”
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“Folly consists not in committing folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public, reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.”
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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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“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed”
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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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“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
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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 a good fortune, to keep him is a blessing”
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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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“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself”
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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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“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled”
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“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way”
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“To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth”
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“Work is the price which is paid for reputation”
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“Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom. If he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed, no one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great”
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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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“He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything”
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