Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

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

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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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

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

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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much,...

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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their...

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

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Evil report carries further than any applause.

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