“If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.”

— Baltasar Gracián , book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Pero el que no pudiere alcançar a tener la sabiduría en servidumbre, lógrela en familiaridad.
Maxim 15 (p. 9)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

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Pero el que no pudiere alcançar a tener la sabiduría en servidumbre, lógrela en familiaridad.

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Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher 1601–1658

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