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BALTASAR GRACIáN Be first the master of yourself
BALTASAR GRACIáN For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to...
BALTASAR GRACIáN The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
BALTASAR GRACIáN One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an I...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
BALTASAR KORMAKUR I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
BALTASAR KORMAKUR I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN 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)