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Title: ~ Baltasar Gracian Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:14:26 PM
Baltasar Gracian Quotes

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A Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales, SJ (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon).

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Time and I against any two.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:15:02 PM
Friends are a second existence.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:15:40 PM
Superiority is always detested.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:16:24 PM
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:16:59 PM
Know or listen to those who know.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:17:34 PM
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:18:03 PM
Without courage wisdom bears no fruit.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:18:38 PM
Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:19:36 PM
Good things when short are twice as good.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:20:29 PM
Begin with another's to end with your own.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:21:08 PM
The path to greatness is along with others.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:21:42 PM
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:22:16 PM
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:22:53 PM
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:24:12 PM
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:24:43 PM
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:25:16 PM
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:25:51 PM
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:26:24 PM
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:26:58 PM
Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:27:31 PM
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:28:02 PM
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:28:34 PM
If you are wise live as you can; if you cannot live as you would.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:29:09 PM
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:29:46 PM
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:30:24 PM
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:31:03 PM
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:31:34 PM
Never do anything when you are in a temper for you will do everything wrong.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:32:10 PM
Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 24, 2013, 03:32:40 PM
Dreams will get you nowhere a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:03:42 AM
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:04:20 AM
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:04:49 AM
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:05:22 AM
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:05:53 AM
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:06:27 AM
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:06:57 AM
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:07:27 AM
A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:08:06 AM
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:08:38 AM
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:09:10 AM
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:09:44 AM
Never open the door to a lesser evil for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:10:15 AM
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:10:51 AM
'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:11:23 AM
Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:11:59 AM
One deceit needs many others and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:12:28 AM
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:12:59 AM
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:13:30 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:14:02 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:14:33 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:15:04 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on December 25, 2013, 10:15:30 AM
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.