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“In heaven, everything is good; in hell, everything bad. In the world, since it lies between the two, you find both. We are placed between two extremes, and so participate in both. Good and bad luck alternate; not all is happy, nor all hostile. This world is a zero: on its own, it's worth nothing; joined to heaven, a great deal. Indifference to its variety constitutes good sense - the wise are never surprised. Our life is arranged like a play, everything will be sorted out in the end. Take care, then, to end it well.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“You may not see me again,' he said, '- the way I am.'
'Any way I don't see you will be all right with me,' she said.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

“The cracked bowl is always annoyingly the one that never actually breaks.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“Engage with reason so misfortune doesn't contend with you.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle