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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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
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.
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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