The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
Baltasar GracianYou have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.
Baltasar GracianFortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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