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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar Gracian
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Baltasar Gracian
Age: 57 †
Born: 1601
Born: January 16
Died: 1658
Died: December 6
Jesuit
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Belmonte de Gracian
Balthasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
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You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
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Success rarely brings satisfaction.
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Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
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Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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