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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
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Belmonte de Gracian
Balthasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Multitude
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Tis much to gain universal admiration more, universal love.
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The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
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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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The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.
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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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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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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise luck can be helped by skill.
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Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
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You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
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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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Superiority is always detested.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business.
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Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
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Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
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