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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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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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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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The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
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It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
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The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
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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.
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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Tis much to gain universal admiration more, universal love.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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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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The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.
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Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end
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Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
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Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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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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