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Baltasar Gracian Inspirational Quotes (150)

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Know the great men of your age.
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You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
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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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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
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Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
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Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
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If you are wise, live as you can if you cannot, live as you would.
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To keep is more important than to make friends.
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Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
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Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
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Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
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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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Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
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It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.
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Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power
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The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
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