The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

—Baltasar Gracián

About Baltasar Gracián

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Baltasar Gracián y Morales (Spanish: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣɾaˈθjan]; 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

—Baltasar Gracián

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

—Baltasar Gracián

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

—Baltasar Gracián

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

—Baltasar Gracián

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

—Baltasar Gracián

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You see what power is—holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

—A. Bartlett Giamatti

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

—Marcus Aurelius

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Desire creates the power.

—Rebecca West

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

—Hugh Elliott

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