{"id":153782,"date":"2023-01-08T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=153782"},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T19:30:22","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-baltasar-gracian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=153782","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Baltasar Graci\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA synonym is a word you use when you can&#8217;t spell the other one.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever compete with someone who has nothing to lose.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout courage, wisdom bears no fruit.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baltasar_Graci%C3%A1n\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Gracian_Graus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153783\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.\u201d ~ Baltasar Graci\u00e1n 8 January 1601 \u2013 6 December 1658 \u201cNever open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/220px-Gracian_Graus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153784,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153782\/revisions\/153784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}