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One Quotes by Baltasar Gracian
- The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
- You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
- To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
- Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
- One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
- 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…
- Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.
- To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
- Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
- The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
- One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
- 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…
- 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…
- Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep,…
- Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
- Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
- Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
- One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
- 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…
- A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of…
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
- Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires…
- One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
- A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born…
- There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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