As many tastes as heads, and as different.
[Tantos son los gustos como los rostros, y tan varios.]
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)]
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(Source (Spanish)). Alternate translations:There are as many Opinions as Faces, and as great difference amongst the one as the other.
[Flesher ed. (1685)]So many men, so many tastes, all different.
[tr. Jacobs (1892)]There are as many minds, as there are heads, and as different.
[tr. Fischer (1937)]Tastes are as abundant as faces and just as varied.
[tr. Maurer (1992)]
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman of indifference, contentment.
