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• Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

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  Fire, Keys, May

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• Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

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  Fashion, Achievement, Promise

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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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• 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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• Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

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  Knowledge, Greatness, Turns

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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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• Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

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  Reality, People, Expectations

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 19, 1647.

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• There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

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  Wise, Skills, Luck

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• Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

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  Integrity, Self, Judgment

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

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  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

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  Needs, Human Condition, Ability

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

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  Helping Others, Perspective, Matter

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• None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

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  Perfect, Advice, Doe

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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  Love, Waiting, Firsts

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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

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  Writing, Use, Synonym

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• If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

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  Wise, Ifs

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

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• Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

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  Choices, Needs, Taste

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• It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

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  Use, Usefulness, Misfortunes

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Wish

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

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  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

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  Business, Good Luck, Skills

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

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  Patience, No Patience, Retiring

  "The Art of Worldy Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, 1647.

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• To oblige people often costs little and helps much.

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  Cost, Littles, Helping

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

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  Dry, Gilded

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

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  Letting Go, Skills, Knowing

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