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• Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people.
  Nor for others, easier. Baltasar Gracia...
• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
  -- Baltasar Gracia...
• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
  -- Baltasar Gracia...
• He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
  -- Baltasar Gracia...
• When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy.
  Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity....
• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. -- Baltasar Gracia
• To know how to refuse is as important as to know how to consent. -- Baltasar Gracia
• Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it. -- Baltasar Gracia
• The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
  -- Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" 1647...