Baltasar Gracian Quotes:- Baltasar Gracian (8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
Inspirational Baltasar Gracian Quotes
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
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“A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.”
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“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.”
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“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
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“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.”
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“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”
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“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.”
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“When desire dies, fear is born.”
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“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
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“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.”
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“Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.”
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“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”
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“We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.”
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“Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.”
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“A man of honor should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.”
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“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
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Best 50+ Quotes on Baltasar Gracian
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
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“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”
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“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
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“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
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“Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.”
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“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”
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“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”
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“Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.”
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“Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.”
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“There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.”
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“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”
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“To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.”
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“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”
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“Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.”
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“The things we remember best are those better forgotten.”
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Top 40+ Quotes by Baltasar Gracian
“To equal a predecessor, one must have twice their worth.”
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“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.”
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“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
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“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.”
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“Aspire rather be a hero than merely appear one.”
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“It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.”
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“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that, we must have recourse to art.”
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“Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.”
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“Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.”
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“A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.”
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“He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.”
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“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”
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“Know or listen to those who know.”
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“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”
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“Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.”
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20+ Baltasar Gracian Quotes that inspire you
“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”
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“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
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“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”
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“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise, you will be miserable from your very happiness.”
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“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.”
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“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”
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“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be an injustice.”
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“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”
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“Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.”
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“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.”
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“Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.”
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“Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.”
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