Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Quote by Baltasar Gracian
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Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotes
- To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
- Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
- The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
- Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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