Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Baltasar Gracian Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.
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.
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
There is no better remedy for disorder than to let it runs its course; it will then disappear on its own.
Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your game, your bad luck will remain.
Nor should we lose heart if something doesn't please someone, for there'll always be someone else it does.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
The more pains you take with a thing, the more should you conceal them, so that it may appear to arise spontaneously from your own natural character.
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.