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• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. -- Baltasar Gracia
• To know how to refuse is as important as to know how to consent. -- Baltasar Gracia
• A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. -- Balthasar Gracia
• Better be alone than in bad company.
• Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it. -- Baltasar Gracia
• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
  -- Baltasar Gracia...
• He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
  -- Baltasar Gracia...
• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
  -- Baltasar Gracia...
• The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
  -- Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" 1647...