Baltasar Gracian Quotes

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

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Begin with another's to end with your own.

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Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

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Work is the price which is paid for reputation

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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

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“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”

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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side

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

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