"A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Friends are a second existence." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. 'Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul." (Baltasar Gracian)
"He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold." (Baltasar Gracian)
"If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would." (Baltasar Gracian)
"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Knowledge without courage is sterile." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame." (Baltasar Gracian)
"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."(Baltasar Gracian)
"One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand." (Baltasar Gracian)
"Surfeits of happiness are fatal." (Baltasar Gracian)
"The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance." (Baltasar Gracian)
"The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious." (Baltasar Gracian)
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally." (Baltasar Gracian)
"There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul." (Baltasar Gracian)
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