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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.»
«The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
excess, humors, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, spreads, The Passions
«Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Fashion,
Ignorance,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
affect, wise to
«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.»