Baltasar Gracian Quotes - Page 11

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• There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

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  Busy, Certain, Precious Time

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• Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

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  Friendship, Real, Existence

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• There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

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  Beauty, Art, Excellence

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• Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

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  Love, Gains, Admiration

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• Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

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  Wisdom, Believe, Would Be

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 176, 1647.

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• It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

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  Excellent, Devices, Acquire

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• It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

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  Work, Skills, Kind

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• The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

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