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Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end

Baltasar Gracian

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Baltasar Gracian
Age: 57 †
Born: 1601
Born: January 16
Died: 1658
Died: December 6
Jesuit
Philosopher
Writer
Belmonte de Gracian
Balthasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Begun
Since
Ends
Never
Life

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Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Admiration is the basis of ignorance.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
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Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
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Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
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We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
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Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
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All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
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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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Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
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God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
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One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.
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The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
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Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
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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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