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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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Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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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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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.
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Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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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 best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
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Tis much to gain universal admiration more, universal love.
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God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
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All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
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Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.
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You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
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Words are feminine deeds are masculine.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business.
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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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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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