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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
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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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The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
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Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
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Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
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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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Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.
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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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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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Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.
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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
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The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.
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Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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