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“Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret. clxxv”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Let the first impulse pass. Wait for the second.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“Knowledge and courage contribute in turn to greatness. Since they are immortal, they immortalize. You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world of darkness. Judgement and strength, eyes and hands; without courage, wisdom is sterile.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“Diligence removes impossibilities.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

“Everything has its time; even what's outstanding is subject to changing taste.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

“To be of use and to know how to show yourself of use, is to be twice as useful.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Nor should we lose heart if something doesn’t please someone, for there’ll always be someone else it does.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

“The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

“Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.”
― Baltasar Gracian

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
― Baltasar Gracian

“The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“There is no better remedy for disorder than to let it runs its course; it will then disappear on its own.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“No one is born complete; perfect yourself and your activities day by day until you become a truly consummate being, your talents and your qualities all perfected.”
― Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies

“The Wise do at once what the Fool does at last. Both do the same thing; the only difference lies in the time they do it: the one at the right time, the other at the wrong. Who starts out with his mind topsyturvy will so continue till the end. He catches by the foot what he ought to knock on the head, he turns right into left, and in all his acts is but a child. There is only one way to get him in the right way, and that is to force him to do what he might have done of his own accord. The wise man, on the other hand, sees at once what must be done sooner”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Things do not change; we change.”
― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
― Albert Camus

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy”
― Khalil Gibran

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
― Aristotle