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The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.


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BALTASAR GRACIáN Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
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MARCELLUS EMANTS My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
BALTASAR GRACIAN We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
BALTASAR GRACIAN It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIÁN The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the w...
JOHANN BALTASAR SCHUPPIUS (SCHUPPE) Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES