Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Know or listen to those who know. Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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