Baltasar Gracián Short Quotes

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Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time.

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Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise.

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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Freedom is more precious than the gift that makes us lose it.

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In conversation, discretion is more importance than eloquence.

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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

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If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

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You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

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Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

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The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

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The one rule for pleasing: whet the appetite, keep people hungry.

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If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

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The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

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A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

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Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

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Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

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None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

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Trust the friends of today as though they will be the enemies of tomorrow.

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Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

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All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.

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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

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Whereas wisdom favors the probabilities, folly favors only the possibilities.

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For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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