Baltasar Gracian Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Taken, Justice, Opponents

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

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  Reality, Secret, Slave

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• Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones - the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

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  Confidence, Thinking, Secret

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• Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

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  Nice, Honor, Enemy

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• Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

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  Pleasure, Pleasant, Pleasant Things

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• Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

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  Lying, Exaggeration Is, Branches

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• The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

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  Memories, Remember, Forgotten

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Mirrors

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• Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

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  Success, Goal, People

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• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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  Lying, Knowledge, Knowing

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• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

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  Confidence, Fall, Achievement

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

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• There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

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  Friends, Self, Ideas

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• The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.

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  Wise, Thanking Him, Advice

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

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  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

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  Political, Should, Clear

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• The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Character

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• You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

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  Character, Understanding, Desire

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• Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

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  Expectations, Advice, Promise

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

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  Fashion, Independent, Vote

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• Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

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  Culture, Chiefs, Politeness

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• 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, Book, Character

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

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• Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

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  Fingers, Shows, Wounded

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

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  Mistake, Men, Evil

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• Leave your luck while still winning.

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  Winning, Advice, Luck

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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