Happiness Quote by Baltasar Gracian

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

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It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

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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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What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

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What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

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

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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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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

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Leave your luck while still winning.

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Superiority is always detested.

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“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.”

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

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The happy have whole days,

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

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I've got nothing to do today but smile.

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The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

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