Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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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.Baltasar Gracian
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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A weak spirit does more harm than a weak body.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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