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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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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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A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
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Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.
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Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
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The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
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Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
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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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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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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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The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
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