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Evil report carries further than any applause.

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
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Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.
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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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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
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It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
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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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There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
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All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
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Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
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The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
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Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare much lowers value.
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What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
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One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.
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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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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.
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Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
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