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• Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

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  Philosophy, Mistake, Book

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• Knowledge without courage is sterile.

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  Courage

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

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  Mountain, Lightning, Strikes

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• There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

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  Popularity, Please, Enjoyed

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.155, Shambhala Publications

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

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  Heart, Ambition, Fame

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• Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

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  Inspirational, Pleasing Others, Advantage

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• Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

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  Passion, Color, Hue

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

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  Judgment, Checks, Good Judgment

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• La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.

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  Usa, Haze

  Baltasar Gracian (2011). “Oraculo y manual”, p.118, NoBooks Editorial

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• Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

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  People, Busy

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• Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

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  Witty, Should Have, Credit

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• The worthless usually live long.

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  Long, Worthless, Values

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• Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

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  Greatness, Contribution, Mutual

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• Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

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  Divinity, Adore

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• Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

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  Friendship, Real, Existence

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• For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

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  Thinking, Done, Undone

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

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  Time, Truth, Lag

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

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  Art, Philosophy, Past

  "Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia". Book by Baltasar Gracián, § 1, 1647.

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• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

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  Order, Envy, May

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• A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

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  Excellence, Mediocrity, Strive

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.108, Shambhala Publications

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• There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

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  Busy, Certain, Precious Time

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• The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

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• Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

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  Writing, Letters, Chance

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

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  Peace, Peacefulness, Peacemaker

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

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  Work, Skills, Kind

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