It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Quote by Baltasar Gracian

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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some...

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some...

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not...

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not...

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation

Work is the price which is paid for reputation

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

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the...

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the...

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

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

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

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

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the...

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the...

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy;...

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy;...