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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
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Belmonte de Gracian
Balthasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
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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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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
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Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
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To keep is more important than to make friends.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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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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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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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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They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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