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Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Type: Philosopher | Date of Birth: 0000-00-00 | Year of Death: 1658 | Nationality: Spanish

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Baltasar Gracian

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Baltasar Gracian

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

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

Begin with another's to end with your own.
Baltasar Gracian

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Baltasar Gracian

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Baltasar Gracian

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian

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

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Baltasar Gracian

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
Baltasar Gracian

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Baltasar Gracian

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracian

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Baltasar Gracian

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Baltasar Gracian

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian

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