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Success rarely brings satisfaction.

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
Rarely
Satisfaction
Brings
Success

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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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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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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.
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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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There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
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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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Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
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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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Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
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You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
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Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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