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Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

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

Coming to believe

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

Desires and defects

You should keep your desires sealed up, still more your defects. All go wrong sometimes, but the wise try to hide the errors, but fools boast of them.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1892)

Refusing and giving consent

One ought not to give way in everything nor to everybody. To know how to refuse is therefore as important as to know how to consent.

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)

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)

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