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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.


Baltasar Gracian

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BALTASAR GRACIáN Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
BALTASAR GRACIáN When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not o...
BALTASAR GRACIáN The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they ca...
BALTASAR GRACIáN The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
BALTASAR GRACIáN I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIÁN The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the w...
JOHANN BALTASAR SCHUPPIUS (SCHUPPE)