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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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Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
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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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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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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Tis much to gain universal admiration more, universal love.
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The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
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Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
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You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
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Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
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The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
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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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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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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
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Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
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The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .
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