Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar GracianWhen you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
Baltasar GracianYou should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
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