Showing posts with label The Art of Worldly Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Art of Worldly Wisdom. Show all posts
Saturday, October 7, 2017

Baltasar Gracian: a man of peace

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-- 192 -- A man  of peace, a man of years; in order to live, let live;    the peaceful not only live, but they reign; lend your ear...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

Baltasar Gracian: Luck

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No. 139 "KNOW YOUR UNLUCKY days:  for such there are ,  when nothing goes right, and even though the game change, the bad luck does n...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Baltasar Gracian: Let's sit this one out

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Something to think about today. No. 138 THE SENSE TO let things settle.  Especially when the public, or the private, sea  is  most turbu...
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Baltasar Gracian: contradictory people

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No. 135 "Do not carry a spirit of contradiction, for it is to be freighted with stupidity, and with peevishness, and your intelligenc...
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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Baltasar Gracian: go with the crowd?

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No. 133   "Better a fool with the crowd, than a sage by yourself;  the politicians say, that if all men are fools, no one of them ca...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Baltasar Gracian: Appearances

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No. 130 Do, and exhibit your doing.  Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem: to have worth, and to know how to show ...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Baltasar Gracian: the necessity for the coverup

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No. 126 "He is not a fool who commits foolishness, but he who having done so does not know how to conceal it.  If your merits should ...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Baltasar Gracian: digging up the dirt

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No. 125 "Not the police court blotter.  The sign of blemish in yourself, to point to the shame of another: some seek with the spots o...
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Baltasar Gracian: on trivia

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No. 121 "Do not make a business of the trivial.  Just as some can make a tale out of anything, so others can make a business of every...
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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Gracian--talking about oneself

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No. 117 "Never talk about yourself.  For you either praise, which is vanity, or you reproach, which is poor spirit, in both instances...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Baltasar Gracian: thoughts on campaign tactics

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The following is from Baltasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom . #114 "Never the cheap rival. Every effort to outshine an oppo...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Something to think about:

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109 "There are men of evil mind, who would make of everything a crime, and not because of passion, but just naturally. They condemn ev...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Something to think about

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No. 10 Fortune and Fame: the one as fleeting as the other is lasting. The first for this life, the second for the next: the one against en...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Something to think about

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No. 8 "A man without passion, the pledge of great loftiness of spirit which by its very superiority redeems a man from the yoke of vagr...