Baltasar Gracian Quotes
80 Baltasar Gracian quotes:
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
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"The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger."
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"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold."
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"A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity"
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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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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
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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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"To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth."
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"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence."
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"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
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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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"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."
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"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."
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"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
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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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"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."
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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
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"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"
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"Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration"
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"The path to greatness is along with others."
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