Baltasar Gracian Quotes


80 quotes:

"Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand"
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"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."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."
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"There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
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"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
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"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
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"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"Evil report carries further than any applause."
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"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."
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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."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes
"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
Author: Gracian Quotes Category: Spanish Philosopher Quotes

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