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  1. A quotation from Gracian

    Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool; and the faultier a man’s judgment, the firmer his conviction.
     
    [Todo necio es persuadido, y todo persuadido necio; y quanto mas erroneo su dictamen, es mayor su tenacidad.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 183 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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  2. A quotation from Gracian

    Never contend with a Man who has nothing to Lose.
     
    [No empeñarse con quien no tiene qué perder.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 172 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

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  3. A quotation from Gracian

    The first step in rising to anger, is to note that you are angry, for that is to enter master of the situation, having determined the need of it, and its height, and going no further; with this considered judgment let your wrath wax, and wane.
     
    [El primer paso del apasionarse es advertir que se apasiona, que es entrar con señorío del afecto, tanteando la necesidad hasta tal punto de enojo, y no más. Con esta superior refleja entre y salga en una ira.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 155 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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  4. A quotation from Gracian

    The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and to sleep upon an enterprise avails more than to be sleepless under it.
     
    [Es la almohada Sibila muda, y el dormir sobre los puntos vale más que el desvelarse debajo de ellos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 151 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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  5. A quotation from Gracian

    Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has anticipated you in taking the Right One.
     
    [Nunca por tema seguir el peor partido, porque el contrario se adelantó y escogió el mejor.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 142 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

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  6. A quotation from Gracian

    A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
     
    [Al varón sabio más le aprovechan sus enemigos que al necio sus amigos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 84 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

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  7. A quotation from Gracian

    Take care not to attain victories over your superior. — All conquest is detested, and to conquer your master is either a folly or a calamity. All superiority is abominated; how much more superiority over superiority.
     
    [Excusar victorias del patrón. Todo vencimiento es odioso, y del dueño, o necio, o fatal. Siempre la superioridad fue aborrecida, cuanto más de la misma superioridad.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 7 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)]

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  8. A quotation from Gracian

    Neither all bad nor all good. A certain sage reduced the whole of wisdom to the golden mean. Carry right too far and it becomes wrong. The orange squeezed completely dry gives only bitterness. Even in enjoyment you shouldn’t go to extremes. The intellect itself will go dry if pressed too hard, and if you milk a cow like a tyrant you will draw only blood.
     
    [Nunca apurar, ni el mal, ni el bien. A la moderación en todo redujo la sabiduría toda un sabio. El sumo derecho se hace tuerto, y la naranja que mucho se estruja llega a dar lo amargo. Aun en la fruición nunca se ha de llegar a los extremos. El mismo ingenio se agota si se apura, y sacará sangre por leche el que esquilmare a lo tirano.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 82 (1647) [tr. Maurer (1992)]

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  9. A quotation from Gracian

    Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
     
    [Nunca se le ha de abrir la puerta al menor mal, que siempre vendrán tras él otros muchos, y mayores, en celada.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 31 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)

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  10. A quotation from Gracian

       Keep matters for a time in suspense. Admiration at their novelty heightens the value of your achievements, It is both useless and insipid to play with the cards on the table. If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention. Mix a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration. And when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary intercourse. Cautious silence is the holy of holies of worldly wisdom. A resolution declared is never highly thought of; it only leaves room for criticism. And if it happens to fail, you are doubly unfortunate.
       Besides you imitate the Divine way when you cause men to wonder and watch.
     
       [Llevar sus cosas con suspensión. La admiración de la novedad es estimación de los aciertos. El jugar a juego descubierto ni es de utilidad ni de gusto. El no declararse luego suspende, y más donde la sublimidad del empleo da objeto a la universal expectación; amaga misterio en todo, y con su misma arcanidad provoca la veneración. Aun en el darse a entender se ha de huir la llaneza, así como ni en el trato se ha de permitir el interior a todos. Es el recatado silencio sagrado de la cordura. La resolución declarada nunca fue estimada; antes se permite a la censura, y si saliere azar, será dos veces infeliz.
       Imítese, pues, el proceder divino para hacer estar a la mira y al desvelo.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 3 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

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  11. A quotation from Baltasar Gracian

    Let friendly intercourse be a school for knowledge, and social contact, a school for culture; to make teachers of your friends is to join the need of learning to the joy of converse.
     
    [Sea el amigable trato escuela de erudición, y la conversación enseñanza culta; un hacer de los amigos maestros, penetrando el útil del aprender con el gusto del conversar.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 11 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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  12. A quotation from Baltasar Gracian

    The way to quiet the turbulence of a mob is to withdraw your hand, and let it quiet itself; to concede today, may be the best way to succeed tomorrow.
     
    [Sea modo de sosegar vulgares torbellinos el alzar mano y dejar sosegar; ceder al tiempo ahora será vencer después.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 138 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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  13. A quotation from Baltasar Gracian

    There is no weakness without its admirer, so be not discomfited because your ways displease some, for they will not fail to be pleasing to others: nor let their approval of them make you vain, for still others will condemn them.
     
    [No hay defecto sin afecto, ni se ha de desconfiar porque no agraden las cosas a algunos, que no faltarán otros que las aprecien; ni aun el aplauso de estos le sea materia al desvanecimiento, que otros lo condenarán.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Fischer (1937)]

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  14. "Qualunque idiota può dire la verità.
    Ma per mentire ci vuole intelligenza."
    #BaltasarGracián

    Se manca quella...

    #Delmastro e fratellini d'Italia non sapevano nulla, anime candide.

    #mafia #GovernoMeloni #giustizia #27maggio

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  15. A quotation from Baltasar Gracián

    As many tastes as heads, and as different.
     
    [Tantos son los gustos como los rostros, y tan varios.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)]

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    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #beliefs #bias #differenceofopinion #individuality #minds #opinions #preferences #tastes

  16. A quotation from Gracian

    One half of the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
     
    [La mitad del mundo se está riendo de la otra mitad, con necedad de todos.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

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  17. A quotation from Gracián

    The intensity of the favour of fortune is often balanced by the shortness of its duration, for fortune gets tired of carrying any one very long upon her shoulders.
     
    [Recompénsase tal vez la brevedad de la duración con la intensión del favor. Cánsase la fortuna de llevar a uno a cuestas tan a la larga.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 38 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)]

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    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #brevity #fortune #gambling #goodluck #luck

  18. El 6 de diciembre de 1658 muere
    🪶 #BaltasarGracián
    Escritor del #SigloDeOro
    En mi época de instituto 📖 El Criticón
    era lectura obligada en edad que interesaban más; Dumas, Stevenson o Verne
    Aún a día de hoy creo que el plan de estudios
    deja a su suerte el fomento de la lectura 😀

  19. - Ideas prácticas del sabio jesuita -
    Baltasar Gracián fue un escritor y filósofo español del siglo XVII, conocido por sus obras de aforismos y consejos sobre cómo vivir con prudencia, astucia y elegancia.

    #baltasargracian #prudencia #astucia

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  20. Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia.
    #BaltasarGracián
    cervantesvirtual.com/obra-viso
    214
    No hazer de una necedad dos. Es mui ordinario para remendar una cometer otras quatro. Escusar una impertinencia con otra mayor es de casta de mentira, o ésta lo es de necedad, que para sustentarse una necessita de muchas. Siempre del mal pleito fue peor el patrocinio; más mal que el mismo mal: no saberlo desmentir. Es pensión de las imperfecciones dar a censo otras muchas.
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  21. "It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward." — Baltasar Gracian — — — #BaltasarGracian #quote #quotes #think #plan #worry #before #after #problems

  22. “Important” work

    Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else. It is equally unfortunate to waste your precious life in mechanical tasks or in a profusion of important work.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #7ForSunday #BaltasarGracián #LifeBalance #Quotes
  23. Expectations

    When you start something, don’t raise other people’s expectations. What is highly praised seldom measures up to expectations. Reality never catches up to imagination. It is easy to imagine something is perfect, and difficult to achieve it. […] Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people’s expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #BaltasarGracián #Perspective #Quotes
  24. Fortune

    Good fortune has its own rules, and to the wise not everything depends upon chance. Fortune is helped along by effort.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #BaltasarGracián #Quotes #WorkEthic
  25. How to refuse

    One of life’s great lessons lies in knowing how to refuse, and it is even more important to refuse yourself, both to business and to others. There are certain inessential activities—moths of precious time—and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing. To be prudent, it isn’t enough not to meddle in other people’s business: You must also keep them from meddling in yours. Don’t belong so much to others that you stop belonging to yourself.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #BaltasarGracián #Quotes #TimeManagement
  26. Make haste slowly

    Diligence is quick to carry out what intelligence has lingered over. Fools are fond of hurry: They take no heed of obstacles and act incautiously. The wise usually fail through hesitation. Fools stop at nothing, the wise at everything. Sometimes things are judged correctly but go wrong out of inefficiency and neglect. Readiness is the mother of luck. It is a great deed to leave nothing for the morrow. A lofty motto: Make haste slowly.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #BaltasarGracián #FestinaLente #Quotes
  27. Well enough alone

    Some take nothing into account, and others want to take account for everything. They are always talking importance, always taking things too seriously, turning them into debate and mystery. Few bothersome things are important enough to bother with. It is folly to take to heart what you should turn your back on. Not the least of life’s rules is to leave well enough alone.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #BaltasarGracián #Focus #Quotes
  28. Better left alone

    Many see the trees but not the forest, or bark up the wrong tree, speaking endlessly, reasoning uselessly, without going to the pith of the matter. They go round and round, tiring themselves and us, and never get to what is important. This happens to people with confused minds who do not know how to clear away the brambles. They waste time and patience on what it would be better to leave alone, and later there is no time for what they left.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #BaltasarGracián #Focus #Quotes
  29. Application and capacity

    Application and capacity. Eminence requires both. When both are present, eminence outdoes itself. The mediocre people who apply themselves go further than the superior people who don’t. Work makes worth.

    ~ Baltasar Gracián

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    #BaltasarGracián #Quotes #WorkEthic
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