Quotes By Baltasar Gracian
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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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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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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