Baltasar Graci�n y Morales
Spain
8 Jan 1601 // 6 Dec 1658
Writer / Philosopher
8 Jan 1601 // 6 Dec 1658
Writer / Philosopher
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
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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