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Baltasar Gracian Quotes - Page 11

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Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

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Inspirational, Pleasing Others, Advantage

Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

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Friendship, Real, Existence

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

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Beauty, Art, Excellence

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

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Love, Gains, Admiration

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

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Wisdom, Believe, Would Be
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 176, 1647.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

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Excellent, Devices, Acquire

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

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Work, Skills, Kind

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

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Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

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