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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
Sight
Information
Knowledge
Live

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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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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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The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
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Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.
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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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Beauty and folly are generally companions.
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Life is a warfare against the malice of others.
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The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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If you are wise, live as you can if you cannot, live as you would.
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Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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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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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
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You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
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It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.
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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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