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Words are feminine deeds are masculine.

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
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Masculine
Feminine
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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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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
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He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
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Know the great men of your age.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
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A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
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Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
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A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
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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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Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
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If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
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Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
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