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BALTASAR GRACIÁN

“Have intelligent support . The good fortune of the powerful: to be accompanied by outstanding minds that can save them from tight spots caused by their own ignorance and fight difficult battles for them.”

BALTASAR GRACIÁN

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

Baltasar Gracián(1601-1658), was a Spanish Jesuit and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.

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