Quotes By Baltasar Gracian
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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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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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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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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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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