The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance. ✨ Baltasar Gracian (20…

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The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance. ✨ Baltasar Gracian (2006). The Art of Worldly Wisdom, p.72, Shambhala Publications
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Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
To overvalue something is a form of lying. ✨ The Art of Worldly Wisdom. Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 41, 1647.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold. ✨ Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). The Art of Worldly Wisdom, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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