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If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.Baltasar Gracian
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.Baltasar Gracian
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Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.Baltasar Gracian
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One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.Baltasar Gracian
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.Baltasar Gracian
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Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
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A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.Baltasar Gracian
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Friends are a second existence.Baltasar Gracian
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There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.Baltasar Gracian
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.Baltasar Gracian
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.Baltasar Gracian
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Good things when short are twice as good.Baltasar Gracian
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Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.Baltasar Gracian
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Surfeits of happiness are fatal.Baltasar Gracian
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Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.Baltasar Gracian
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The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
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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.Baltasar Gracian
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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 nothing at all.Baltasar Gracian
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'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.Baltasar Gracian
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.Baltasar Gracian
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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.Baltasar Gracian
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Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.Baltasar Gracian
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.Baltasar Gracian
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Superiority is always detested.Baltasar Gracian
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Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.Baltasar Gracian
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Time and I against any two.Baltasar Gracian
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Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.Baltasar Gracian
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It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.Baltasar Gracian
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A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.Baltasar Gracian
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The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.Baltasar Gracian
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Words are feminine deeds are masculine.Baltasar Gracian
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Begin with another's to end with your own.Baltasar Gracian
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.Baltasar Gracian
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.Baltasar Gracian
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.Baltasar Gracian
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.Baltasar Gracian
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.Baltasar Gracian
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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.Baltasar Gracian
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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.Baltasar Gracian
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Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.Baltasar Gracian
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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.Baltasar Gracian
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.Baltasar Gracian
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.Baltasar Gracian
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.Baltasar Gracian
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.Baltasar Gracian
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.Baltasar Gracian
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Know or listen to those who know.Baltasar Gracian
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.Baltasar Gracian
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.Baltasar Gracian
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.Baltasar Gracian
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.Baltasar Gracian