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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Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
When desire dies, fear is born.
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