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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Know or listen to those who know
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment
Good things, when short, are twice as good
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders
For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter
Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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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