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Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Baltasar Gracian Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Baltasar Gracian
Type:
Philosopher
Nationality:
Spanish
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  • 1
    A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 2
    A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 3
    A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 4
    Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 5
    Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 6
    Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar 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-GracianBaltasar 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-GracianBaltasar 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-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 10
    Begin with another's to end with your own. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar 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-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 12
    Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 13
    Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 14
    Evil report carries further than any applause. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar 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-GracianBaltasar 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-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 17
    Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 18
    Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 19
    He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 20
    He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave. Baltasar-GracianBaltasar Gracian
  • 21
    He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 22
    Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 23
    I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Baltasar-Gracian/">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/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 25
    It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 26
    It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 27
    Know or listen to those who know. Baltasar-Gracian/">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/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 29
    Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 30
    Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 31
    Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 32
    Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 33
    Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 34
    Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 35
    Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 36
    Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 37
    One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 38
    Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 39
    Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 40
    The things we remember best are those better forgotten. Baltasar-Gracian/">Baltasar Gracian
  • 41
    There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. Baltasar-Gracian/41.php">Baltasar Gracian
  • 42
    There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. Baltasar-Gracian/42.php">Baltasar Gracian
  • 43
    Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. Baltasar-Gracian/43.php">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/44.php">Baltasar Gracian
  • 45
    True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. Baltasar-Gracian/45.php">Baltasar Gracian
  • 46
    We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend. Baltasar-Gracian/46.php">Baltasar Gracian
  • 47
    When desire dies, fear is born. Baltasar-Gracian/47.php">Baltasar Gracian
  • 48
    Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar-Gracian/48.php">Baltasar Gracian
  • 49
    Work is the price which is paid for reputation. Baltasar-Gracian/49.php">Baltasar Gracian