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"Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light."
- Baltasar Gracian, More quotation on Talent. |
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"The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated."
- Baltasar Gracian, More quotation on Giving. |
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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
- Baltasar Gracian, More quotation on Enemies. |
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"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."
- Baltasar Gracian, More quotation on Confidence. |
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"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others."
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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
- Baltasar Gracian, More quotation on Talent. |
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"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward."
- Baltasar Gracian, More quotation on Sleep. |
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"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier."
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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
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"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good."
- Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647, More quotation on Power. |