QUOTES by Baltasar Gracián
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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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"Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax"
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
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"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."
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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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"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
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"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
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"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
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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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"Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it."
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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
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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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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
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"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."
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"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
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"At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing."
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"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."
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"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."
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"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
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