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Baltasar Gracian quotes, quotations, sayings

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian
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Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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LIBRA (Sep. 23 to Oct. 22) Your desire for justice and truth will be overshadowed by your desire for filthy lucre and a decent meal. Be gracious and polite. Someone is watching you, so stop staring like that.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian
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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]
Bible
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It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
Baltasar Gracian
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Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...
David Gridley, Indiantown
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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Balthasar Gracian
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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
Hafiz
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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.
Baltasar Gracian
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. Macaulay
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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.
Baltasar Gracian
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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
John Ray
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian
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Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Thomas B. Aldrich
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
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When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian
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Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
Knute Rockne
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To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Publilius Syrus
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Baltasar Gracian
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Baltasar Gracian
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Baltasar Gracian
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
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The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?
Julia Kavanagh
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The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
Russell Lynes
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Edward M. Forster
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The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
O. J. Simpson
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
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