Baltasar Gracian Quotes

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

Life, Friendship, Good

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

Integrity, Single, Lie

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Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

Motivational, Listen

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

Friendship, Life, Good

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 Gracian

Person, Off, Show

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian

Motivational, Wise, Fool

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

Friendship, Shade, Companion

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

Wisdom, Alone, Wise

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

Anger, Everything, Wrong

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian

Happiness, Wish, Leave

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

Respect, Yourself, Others

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 Gracian

Often, Leave, Common

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

Nothing, Dog, Lion

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

Confidence, May, Difficult

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

Anger, Nothing, Lose

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

Wise, Fool, Friends

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

Great, Waiting, Luck

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Baltasar Gracian

Best, While, Ahead

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian

Beautiful, Woman, Her

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

Dreams, Good, Long

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

Knowledge, Wise, Ignorance

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

Great, Ability, Assignment

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

Good, Hope, Gratitude

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

Sleep, Lie, Awake

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

Long, Sometimes, Her

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 8, 1601

Died: December 6, 1658

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