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Not applying remedies

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It takes a wise doctor to know when not to prescribe, and at times the greater skill consists in not applying remedies.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

Was born on: 08.01.1601
About Author: Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer

Courtesy

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

Individuals and the age

The rarest individuals depend on their age. It is not every one that finds the age he deserves, and even when he finds it, he does not always know how to utilize it. Some men have been worthy of a better century, for every species of good does not always triumph.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

A great man

He is a great man who never allows himself to be influenced by the impressions of others.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

Inborn rule

It is a secret force of superiority not to have to get on by artful trickery but by an inborn power of rule.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

Watch superlatives

It is an important object of attention not to talk in superlatives, so as neither to offend against truth nor to give a mean idea of one's understanding. Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

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