The great art of giving consists in this the gift should co… - Baltasar Gracián

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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.

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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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Pen Names: Lorenzo Gracián

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

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Fabricáronles a muchos su grandeza sus malévolos. Más fiera es la lisonja que el odio, pues remedia éste eficazmente las tachas que aquélla disimula.

Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.

To overvalue something is a form of lying.

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 Gracián

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