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Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.


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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