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Wise Quotes by Baltasar Gracian
- Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
- The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.
- Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
- Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
- If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.
- Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
- The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
- The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
- The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
- Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have…
- 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…
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