Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Quote by Baltasar Gracian

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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...

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...

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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...

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

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

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

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.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

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

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

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but...

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but...

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

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

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...

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind...

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we...