Baltasar Gracián föddes den 8 januari1601 och dog den 6 december 1658 - leading Spanish exponent of conceptism. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
At twenty the will rules, At thirty the intellect, At forty the judgment
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.
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter
Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity and with peevishness, and your intelligence should plot against it; though it may well be the mark of mental genius to see objection, a wrangler about everything cannot
Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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