Baltasar Gracian

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Bil yada bilenleri dinle.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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