“Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. … When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.”

— Baltasar Gracián, book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Muchas cosas de gusto no se han de poseer en propiedad. … Gózanse las cosas ajenas con doblada fruición, esto es, sin el riesgo del daño y con el gusto de la novedad.
Maxim 263
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

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Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher 1601–1658

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Maxim 118: (p. 66)
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