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Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.

Baltasar Gracián

wisdom cover-up cunning

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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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You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world in darkness.

Unos mueren porque sienten y otros viven porque no sienten. Y assí, unos son necios porque no mueren de sentimiento, y otros lo son porque mueren de él.

The greater your exploits the less you need affect them: content yourself with doing, leave the talking to others.

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