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Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Spain
8 Jan 1601 // 6 Dec 1658
Writer / Philosopher
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On Company:
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade
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On Behaviour:
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong
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On Enemy:
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies
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On Luck:
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise
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On Behaviour:
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second
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On Patience:
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself
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On Diversity:
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you
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On Courtesy:
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice
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On Luck:
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it
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On Word:
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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