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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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The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
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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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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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It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
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A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
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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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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
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It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
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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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If you are wise, live as you can if you cannot, live as you would.
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Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
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Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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Fools rush in through the door for folly is always bold.
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