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Letter "B" » Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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«Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.»
«Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
invariably, lesser, slink, slinking, slinks
«Know or listen to those who know»
«We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend»
«Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
amended, amending, withdraw, withdrawing, withdraws
«At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.»
«Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
discovers, displays, left over, novelties, novelty, show off, surprising
«He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.»
«A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
destroys, integrity, reputation
«Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.»
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