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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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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
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Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
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One who was abhorred by all in prosperity is adored by all in adversity.
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Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.
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Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
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It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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Admiration is the basis of ignorance.
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You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
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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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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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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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Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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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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The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
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Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.
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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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The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
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