"They make the greatest show of what they……" — Baltasar Gracian
"They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least."
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202 Quotes by Baltasar Gracian
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- What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
- He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
- Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
- The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
- Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
- Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
- All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
- Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.
- Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
- An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
- The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
- Begin with another's to end with your own.
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