Baltasar Graci�n y Morales

Spain
8 Jan 1601 // 6 Dec 1658
Writer / Philosopher

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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way
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
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
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