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Today, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #73 Utilise Slips. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #73 Utilise Slips. That is how smart people get out of difficulties. They extricate themselves from the most intricate labyrinth by some...

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Admin started a thread Aphorism #72 Be Resolute. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #72 Be Resolute. Bad execution of your designs does less harm than irresolution in forming them. Streams do less harm flowing than when...

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05-17-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #71 Do not Vacillate. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #71 Do not Vacillate. Let not your actions be abnormal either from disposition or affectation. An able man is always the same in his best...

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05-16-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #70 Know how to Refuse. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #70 Know how to Refuse. One ought not to give way in everything nor to everybody. To know how to refuse is therefore as important as to...

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05-15-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #69 Do not give way to every common Impulse. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #69 Do not give way to every common Impulse. He is a great man who never allows himself to be influenced by the impressions of others....

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05-14-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #68 It is better to help with Intelligence than with Memory. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #68 It is better to help with Intelligence than with Memory. The more as the latter needs only recollection, the former More...

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05-13-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #67 Prefer Callings "en Evidence." in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #67 Prefer Callings "en Evidence." Most things depend on the satisfaction of others. Esteem is to excellence what the zephyr is to...

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05-12-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #66 See that Things end well. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #66 See that Things end well. Some regard more the rigour of the game than the winning of it, but to the world the discredit of the final...

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05-11-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #65 Elevated Taste. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #65 Elevated Taste. You can train it like the intellect. Fullknowledge whets desire and increases enjoyment. You may know a noble spirit...

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05-10-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #64 Avoid Worry. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #64 Avoid Worry. Such prudence brings its own reward. It escapes much, and is thus the midwife of comfort and so of happiness. Neither...

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05-09-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #63 To he the First of the Kind is an Excellence, in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #63 To he the First of the Kind is an Excellence, and to be eminent in it as well, a double one. To have the first move is a great...

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05-08-2013, 11:05 AM

NikolaiI commented on blog entry Economics After the End in Memories of the 28th Century

Subsistence * last paragraph, not substance

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05-08-2013, 09:15 AM

Mr.lucifer started a thread The Nobel Prize in Literature from an alternative universe in General Literature

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05-08-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #62 Use good Instruments. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #62 Use good Instruments. Some would have the subtlety of their wits proven by the meanness of their instruments. More...

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05-07-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #61 To Excel in what is Excellent. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #61 To Excel in what is Excellent. A great rarity among excellences. You cannot have a great man without something pre-eminent....

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05-06-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #60 A Sound Judgment. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #60 A Sound Judgment. Some are born wise, and with this natural advantage enter upon their studies, with a moiety already mastered. With...

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05-05-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #59 Finish off well. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #59 Finish off well. In the house of Fortune, if you enter by the gate of pleasure you must leave by that of sorrow and vice versâ. You...

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05-04-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #58 Adapt Yourself to your Company. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #58 Adapt Yourself to your Company. There is no need to show your ability before every one. Employ no more force than is necessary. Let...

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05-03-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #57 Slow and Sure. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #57 Slow and Sure. Early enough if well. Quickly done can be quickly undone. To last an eternity requires an eternity of preparation....

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05-02-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #56 Have Presence of Mind. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #56 Have Presence of Mind. The child of a happy promptitude of spirit. Owing to this vivacity and wideawakeness there is no fear of...

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05-01-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #55 Wait. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #55 Wait. It's a sign of a noble heart dowered with patience, never to be in a hurry, never to be in a passion. First be master over...

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04-30-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #54 Know how to show your Teeth. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #54 Know how to show your Teeth. Even hares can pull the mane of a dead lion. There is no joke about courage. Give wayto the first and...

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04-29-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #53 Diligent and Intelligent. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #53 Diligent and Intelligent. Diligence promptly executes what intelligence slowly excogitates. Hurry is the failing of fools; they know...

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04-28-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #52 Never be put out. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #52 Never be put out. Â’Tis a great aim of prudence never to be embarrassed. It is the sign of a real man. of a noble heart, for...

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04-27-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #51 Know how to Choose well. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #51 Know how to Choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor...

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04-26-2013, 03:20 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #50 Never lose Self-respect, in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #50 Never lose Self-respect, or be too familiar with oneself. Let yourown right feeling be the true standard of your rectitude, and owe...

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04-25-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #49 Observation and Judgment. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #49 Observation and Judgment. A man with these rules things, not they him. He sounds at once the profoundest depths; he is a phrenologist...

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04-24-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #48 Be Thorough. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #48 Be Thorough. How much depends on the person. The interior must be at least as much as the exterior. There are natures all frontage,...

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04-23-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #47 Avoid "Affairs of Honour" in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #47 Avoid "Affairs of Honour" --one of the chiefest aims of prudence. In men of great ability the extremes are kept far asunder, so that...

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04-22-2013, 03:10 AM

Admin started a thread Aphorism #46 Master your Antipathies. in Balthasar Gracian's The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Aphorism #46 Master your Antipathies. We often allow ourselves to take dislikes, and that before we know anything of a person. At times this...

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