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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
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Belmonte de Gracian
Balthasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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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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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
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Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.
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Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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