Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bes… - Baltasar Gracián

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Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Baltasar Gracián

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About Baltasar Gracián

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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At twenty the will rules; at thirty the intellect; at forty the judgment.

clxxxiii Do not hold your Views too firmly. Every fool is fully convinced, and every one fully persuaded is a fool: the more erroneous his judgment the more firmly he holds it.

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

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. - Baltasar Gracián

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