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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.


Baltasar Kormakur

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BALTASAR GRACIáN One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an I...
BALTASAR GRACIáN A beautiful woman should break her mirror early
BALTASAR GRACIAN A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No,...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Evil report carries further than any applause.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
BALTASAR GRACIAN The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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 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) Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES