It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian Quotations
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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.
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.