Many people spend time studying the properties of animals o… - Baltasar Gracián

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Many people spend time studying the properties of animals or herbs; how much more important it would be to study those of people, with whom we must live or die!

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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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