Some people belong entirely to others … They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves. – Baltasar Gracian
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. – Baltasar Gracian
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. – Baltasar Gracian
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. – Baltasar Gracian
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. – Baltasar Gracian
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it. – Baltasar Gracian
There is no wilderness like a life without friends. – Baltasar Gracian
Complaints will always discredit you. – Baltasar Gracian
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. – Baltasar Gracian
The wise does at once what the fool does at last. – Baltasar Gracian
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. – Baltasar Gracian
When desire dies, fear is born. – Baltasar Gracian
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