"A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.

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Be first the master of yourself

More Baltasar Gracián quotes
"The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
"We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
"Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have ma...
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.