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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
Information
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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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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Success rarely brings satisfaction.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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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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Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
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Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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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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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Hurry is the weakness of fools.
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Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.
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The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
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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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