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Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

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
Even
Something
Good
Letter
Letters
Chance
Write
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Fools rush in through the door for folly is always bold.
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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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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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Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
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Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
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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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There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
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Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
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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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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
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Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
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A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
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Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
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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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Knowledge without courage is sterile.
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