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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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Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
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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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It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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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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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.
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You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
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Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
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Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
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It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
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Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
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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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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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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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He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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