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What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

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
Multitude
Multitudes
Soon
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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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Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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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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Know the great men of your age.
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Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
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Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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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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There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
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Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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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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Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.
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Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
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Beauty and folly are generally companions.
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Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
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