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Spanish
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Writer
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Philosopher
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Jesuit Priest
January 08, 1601
Spanish
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Writer
,
Philosopher
&
Jesuit Priest
January 08, 1601
Begin with another's to end with your own.
Baltasar Gracián
Words are feminine deeds are masculine.
Baltasar Gracián
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracián
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
Baltasar Gracián
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.
Baltasar Gracián
Good things when short are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracián
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Baltasar Gracián
Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.
Baltasar Gracián
Time and I against any two.
Baltasar Gracián
Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracián
Superiority is always detested.
Baltasar Gracián
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracián
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
Baltasar Gracián
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 Gracián
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
Baltasar Gracián
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 Gracián
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
Baltasar Gracián
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 nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracián
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracián
Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward who employ their enterprise who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck and to effectively gain her favor.
Baltasar Gracián
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
Baltasar Gracián
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.
Baltasar Gracián
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
Baltasar Gracián
Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
Baltasar Gracián
Good things when short are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracián
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Baltasar Gracián
Friends are a second existence.
Baltasar Gracián
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.
Baltasar Gracián
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.
Baltasar Gracián
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracián
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracián
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.
Baltasar Gracián
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
Baltasar Gracián
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
Baltasar Gracián
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracián
If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.
Baltasar Gracián
Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.
Baltasar Gracián
Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of carrying anyone long upon her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracián
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
Baltasar Gracián
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
Baltasar Gracián
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracián
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracián
Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.
Baltasar Gracián
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
Baltasar Gracián
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracián
Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense
Baltasar Gracián
For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
Baltasar Gracián
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Baltasar Gracián
Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.
Baltasar Gracián
Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding. She sinks to tyranny, not satisfied with mere faith, but demanding works. Thus she becomes the mistress of life itself. She does so with pleasure or with pain, according to the nonsense presented. She makes people contented or discontented with themselves. By dangling before some nothing but the specter of their eternal suffering, she becomes the scourge of these fools. To others she shows nothing but fortune and romance, while merrily laughing. Of all this she is capable if not held in check by the wisest of wills.
Baltasar Gracián
We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.
Baltasar Gracián
Deal with people from whom you can learn
Baltasar Gracián
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracián
Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary.
Baltasar Gracián
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 a good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracián
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracián
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracián
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