Baltasar Gracian Quotes - Page 4

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• Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

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  Culture, Chiefs, Politeness

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• The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

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  Letting Go, Skills, Knowing

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• Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

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  Pleasure, Pleasant, Pleasant Things

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• Beauty and folly are generally companions.

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  Beauty, Beautiful Women, Companion

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• Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

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  Mediocrity, Application, Superiority

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• Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.

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  Integrity, Self, Judgment

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• Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

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  Lying, Exaggeration Is, Branches

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• It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

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  Philosophy, Book, Character

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.

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  Knowledge, Greatness, Turns

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• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Advice

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• Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

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  Friendship, Enemy, Provoked

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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  Gratitude, Memories, Good Memories

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

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  Writing, Use, Synonym

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• An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

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  Pounds, Wit, Prudence

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Maxim 92, 1647.

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• Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

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  Fire, Keys, May

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• Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

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  Choices, Needs, Taste

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• Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

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  Risk, Novelty, Losing

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 263, 1647.

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• Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

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  Helping Others, Perspective, Matter

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• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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• None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

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  Perfect, Advice, Doe

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.83, Shambhala Publications

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• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

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  Business, Good Luck, Skills

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

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  Mistake, Men, Evil

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• To oblige people often costs little and helps much.

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  Cost, Littles, Helping

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

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  Wise, Learning, Ignorance

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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• Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

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  Exaggeration Is, Taste, Judgment

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