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| Baltasar Gracian
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. A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and foolish have never agreed.A man of honor should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Admiration is the basis of ignorance.Always act as if you were seen.Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. 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. Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.Begin with another's to end with your own.Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter.Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people
think little of what they understand, and venerate
what they do not.Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Evil report carries further than any applause.For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration.Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.Good things are twice as good when they are short.Good things, when short, are twice as good.Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier.Know or listen to those who know.Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.The things we remember best are those better forgotten.The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.The wise does at once what the fool does at last.The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. There is no need to show your ability before everyone.There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.We live by information, not by sight. We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.When desire dies, fear is born.Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.Work is the price which is paid for reputation. |
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