Baltasar E Quotes

#1. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

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#2. Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

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#3. Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

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#4. A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.

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#5. Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

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#6. Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

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#7. Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to
live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what
looks like cunning.

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#8. Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.

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#9. If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

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#10. Everyone could have been pre-eminent at something, if they had been aware of their best quality.

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#11. Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.

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#12. It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

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#13. Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

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#14. I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

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#15. Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

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#16. Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

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#19. A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

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#20. I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

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#21. The worthless usually live long.

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#22. Avoid outshining the master. All superiority is odious, but the superiority of a subject over his prince is not only stupid, it is fatal. This is a lesson that the stars in the sky teach us - they may be related to the sun, and just as brilliant, but they never appear in her company.

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#23. There is no desert like being friendless.

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#24. Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement; intelligence and application are not enough. There is no perfection without discernment and selection.

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#25. If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

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#26. It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

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#27. One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

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#28. Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

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#29. No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

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#30. Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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