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

Quote by Baltasar Gracian

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even...

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even...

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

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

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...

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...

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.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

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...

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...

Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity...

Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity...

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being...

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being...

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others...

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others...

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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...

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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

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

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility...

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility...

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the...

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the...