Monthly Archives: April 2018

This is a strategy for getting what you want. Even in heavenly matters, our Christian teachers recommend this holy craftiness. It is an important dissimulation and you use it to capture someone else’s will. You appear to have his interests … Continue reading →

Not everyone bites at substance or looks for inner value. People like to follow the crowd; they go someplace because they see other people do so. It takes skill to explain something’s value. You can use praise, for praise arouses … Continue reading →

Find out first whether they’re being clever or simply vulgar. It isn’t always stubbornness; sometimes it is a trick. So pay attention and don’t get caught up in the former or cast down by the latter. Baltasar Gracian, S.J.

A ripe judgment is slow to believe. Lying is ordinary; let belief be extraordinary. The rush to judgment leads to embarrassment and exhaustion. The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed. Prudent listeners suspend their judgment. Baltasar Gracian, … Continue reading →

It was held that a patent is not private property but, in fact, a type of property under the public-rights doctrine.  It was further held that the IPR procedure used by the PTAB is constitutional. The Court, however, left undecided … Continue reading →

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Some people conceive well but give birth badly, for without clarity, the children of the soul – concepts, resolutions – never see the light. What resolution is to the will, clarity is to the intellect: both are great gifts. People … Continue reading →

quick to carry out what intelligence has lingered over. Fools are fond of hurry: they take no heed of obstacles and act incautiously. The wise usually fail through hesitation.  Readiness is the mother of luck. It is a great deed … Continue reading →

Baltasar Gracian, S.J.

Immanuel Kant