How to Use Your Enemies
Baltasar Gracián
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.”
“Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense”
“Deal with people from whom you can learn”
“You should therefore never reveal what causes you pain or pleasure, so that the former may quickly end and the latter long continue.”
“Nor should we lose heart if something doesn’t please someone, for there’ll always be someone else it does.”
“Some friendships are like a marriage, others like an affair; the latter are for pleasure, the former for the abundant success they engender. Few are friends because of you yourself, many of because of your good fortune. A friend's true understanding is worth more than the many good wishes of others. Make friends by choice, then, not by chance.”
“Life is arduous without any breaks, like a long journey without any inns. Learned variety makes it pleasant. Spend the first part of a fine life in communication with the dead. We are born to know and to know ourselves, and books reliably turn us into people. Spend the second part with the living: see and examine all that's good in the world. Not everything can be found in one country; the universal Father has shared out his gifts and sometimes endows the ugliest with the most. Let the third stage be spent entirely with yourself: the ultimate happiness, to philosophize.”
“Everyone could have been pre-eminent at something, if they had been aware of their best quality.”
“Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your game, your bad luck will remain.”
“The whole of life should be a process of deliberation to choose the right course. Reflection and foresight provide the means of living in anticipation.”
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Book Keywords:
learning, pessimism, advice-for-daily-living, friendship, advice, latinamerican
