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1. "A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are." ~ Baltasar Gracian

2. "It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it." ~ Baltasar Gracian

3. "Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check." ~ Baltasar Gracian

4. "It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards." ~ Baltasar Gracian

5. "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching." ~ Baltasar Gracian

6. "Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do." ~ Baltasar Gracian

7. "Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one." ~ Baltasar Gracian

8. "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 island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." ~ Baltasar Gracian

9. "Know or listen to those who know." ~ Baltasar Gracian

10. "A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity." ~ Baltasar Gracian

11. "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." ~ Baltasar Gracian

12. "Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong." ~ Baltasar Gracian

13. "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 of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent." ~ Baltasar Gracian

14. "Never have a companion that casts you in the shade." ~ Baltasar Gracian

15. "The wise does at once what the fool does at last." ~ Baltasar Gracian

16. "Respect yourself if you would have others respect you." ~ Baltasar Gracian

17. "Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone." ~ Baltasar Gracian

18. "Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness." ~ Baltasar Gracian

19. "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." ~ Baltasar Gracian

20. "Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave." ~ Baltasar Gracian

21. "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

22. "Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose." ~ Baltasar Gracian

23. "Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks." ~ Baltasar Gracián

24. "Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders." ~ Baltasar Gracián

25. "Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." ~ Baltasar Gracián

26. "It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it." ~ Baltasar Gracián

27. "Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it." ~ Baltasar Gracián

28. "Die Freiheit ist kostbarer als jedes Geschenk, das dich verleiten mag, sie aufzugeben." ~ Baltasar Gracián

29. "Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets." ~ Baltasar Gracián

30. "Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mere faith, but demanding works. Thus she becomes the mistress of life itself. She does so with pleasure or with pain, according to the nonsense presented. She makes people contented or discontented with themselves. By dangling before some nothing but the specter of their eternal suffering, she becomes the scourge of these fools. To others she shows nothing but fortune and romance, while merrily laughing. Of all this she is capable if not held in check by the wisest of wills." ~ Baltasar Gracián

31. "Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end" ~ Baltasar Gracián

32. "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 to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great." ~ Baltasar Gracián

33. "Life is a warfare against the malice of others." ~ Baltasar Gracián

34. "When desire dies,fear is born" ~ Baltasar Gracián

35. "Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." ~ Baltasar Gracián

36. "The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness." ~ Baltasar Gracián

37. "Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they cannot measure up to excessive expectations. The actual can never attain the imagined: for to think perfection is easy, but to embody it is most difficult. The imagination weds the wish, and together they always conjure up more than reality can furnish. For however great may be a person's virtues, the will never measure up to what was imagined. When people see themselves cheated in their extravagant anticipations, they turn more quickly to disparagement than to praise. Hope is a great falsifier of the truth; the the intelligence put her right by seeing to it that the fruit is superior to its appetite. You will make a better exit when the actual transcends the imagined, and is more than was expected." ~ Baltasar Gracián

38. "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 failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will." ~ Baltasar Gracián

39. "Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier." ~ Baltasar Gracián

40. "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 made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful." ~ Baltasar Gracián

41. "Señal de tener gastada la fama propia es cuidar de la infamia ajena." ~ Baltasar Gracián

42. "Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The works of nature all amount to a peak of perfection; up to it they wax, beyond it they wane. Only in matters of art have a few gone to the point where they might not be improved. It is the mark of cultivated taste to enjoy everything at its best. But all may not do this, and not all who may, know how. Even the fruits of the spirit have their moment of ripeness, and it is well to recognize this, in order to value it properly and attend to it." ~ Baltasar Gracián

43. "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, in the other that it may not be dismayed." ~ Baltasar Gracián

44. "The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick." ~ Baltasar Gracián

45. "Not all were born into a period worthy of them." ~ Baltasar Gracián

46. "Prefiere estar loco igual que todos, y no cuerdo y solitario.Así dicen los políticos, con toda razón. Que si todos son locos, tú no saldrás perdiendo por estarlo. Si eres el único cuerdo, te acusarán de loco. Por iso es importante seguir la corrente de la gente. Muchas veces, la mayor sabiduría consiste en no saber, o aparentar no saber. Has de vivir con la gente, y la mayoría son ignorantes." ~ Baltasar Gracián

47. "The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated." ~ Baltasar Gracián

48. "One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno." ~ Baltasar Gracián

49. "The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard." ~ Baltasar Gracián

50. "He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well." ~ Baltasar Gracián

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