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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
Deeds
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Masculine
Feminine

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Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.
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Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
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Hurry is the weakness of fools.
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Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
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The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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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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The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.
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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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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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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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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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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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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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Know the great men of your age.
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Harness the imagination, for she is the whole of happiness.
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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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Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end
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