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• 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.

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  Confidence, Fall, Achievement

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

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  Liars, Lying, Believe

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 154, 1647.

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• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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  Lying, Knowledge, Knowing

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• Hurry is the weakness of fools.

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  Weakness, Fool, Action

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• Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.

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  Fall, Should Have, Doors

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

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  Reality, Secret, Slave

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• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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  Taken, Justice, Opponents

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• 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 of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

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  Fashion, Achievement, Promise

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• Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.

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  Success, Goal, People

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• If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

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  Wise, Ifs

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

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• You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

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  Fashion, Independent, Vote

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• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

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  Friends, Self, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Impatient

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

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  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

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  Character, Understanding, Desire

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• Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

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  Nice, Honor, Enemy

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• Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

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  Culture, Chiefs, Politeness

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• 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.

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  People, Expectations, Each Day

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• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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  Love, Waiting, Firsts

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• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

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  Excellence, Excellent, Teach

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• Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

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  Fingers, Shows, Wounded

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• Know or listen to those who know.

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  Motivational, Knowledge, Belief

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• Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

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  Deeds, Feminine, Masculine

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