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Baltasar Gracian Quotes
- Name:
- Baltasar Gracian
- Type:
- Philosopher
- Nationality:
- Spanish
- Birth year:
- 1601
- 1
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. Baltasar Gracian
- 2
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. Baltasar Gracian
- 3
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. Baltasar Gracian
- 4
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. Baltasar Gracian
- 5
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar Gracian
- 6
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. Baltasar Gracian
- 7
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing. Baltasar Gracian
- 8
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. Baltasar Gracian
- 9
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. Baltasar Gracian
- 10
Begin with another's to end with your own. Baltasar Gracian
- 11
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. Baltasar Gracian
- 12
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Baltasar Gracian
- 13
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Baltasar Gracian
- 14
Evil report carries further than any applause. Baltasar Gracian
- 15
Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. Baltasar Gracian
- 16
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. Baltasar Gracian
- 17
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian
- 18
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian
- 19
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian
- 20
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. Baltasar Gracian
- 21
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. Baltasar Gracian
- 22
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. Baltasar Gracian
- 23
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Baltasar Gracian
- 24
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice. Baltasar Gracian
- 25
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. Baltasar Gracian
- 26
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Baltasar Gracian
- 27
Know or listen to those who know. Baltasar Gracian
- 28
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. Baltasar Gracian
- 29
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Baltasar Gracian
- 30
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. Baltasar Gracian
- 31
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Baltasar Gracian
- 32
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar Gracian
- 33
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Baltasar Gracian
- 34
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Baltasar Gracian
- 35
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Baltasar Gracian
- 36
Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Baltasar Gracian
- 37
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. Baltasar Gracian
- 38
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. Baltasar Gracian
- 39
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. Baltasar Gracian
- 40
The things we remember best are those better forgotten. Baltasar Gracian
- 41
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Baltasar Gracian
- 42
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. Baltasar Gracian
- 43
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. Baltasar Gracian
- 44
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Baltasar Gracian
- 45
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. Baltasar Gracian
- 46
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend. Baltasar Gracian
- 47
When desire dies, fear is born. Baltasar Gracian
- 48
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracian
- 49
Work is the price which is paid for reputation. Baltasar Gracian