He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing… - Baltasar Gracián

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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much and God in everything. cxxxviii

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Baltasar Gracián y Morales (8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), most widely known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit author regarded as one of the most accomplished prose stylists of the Baroque era.

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Alternative Names: Balthasar Gracian • Baltasar Gracian • Baltasar Gracián y Morales

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Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us - they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company.

Quanto que el no creer es indicio del mentir; porque el mentiroso tiene dos males, que ni cree ni es creído.

Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much and God in everything. cxxxviii - Baltasar Gracián

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