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Know the great men of your age.

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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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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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
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Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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