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Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
— Baltasar Gracian
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
— Baltasar Gracian
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
— Baltasar Gracian
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.
— Baltasar Gracian
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
— Baltasar Gracian
Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.
— Baltasar Gracian
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
— Baltasar Gracian
Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.
— Baltasar Gracian
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
— Baltasar Gracian
Worries die away before a man who asserts himself.
— Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.
— Baltasar Gracian
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
— Baltasar Gracian
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
— Baltasar Gracian
Deal with people from whom you can learn
— Baltasar Gracian
You should therefore never reveal what causes you pain or pleasure, so that the former may quickly end and the latter long continue.
— Baltasar Gracian
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.
— Baltasar Gracian
Their intrinsic worth is not enough, for not all turn the goods over and look deep. Most run where the crowd is--because the others run
— Baltasar Gracian
Be a combination of a dove and the serpent; not a monster, but a prodigy.
— Baltasar Gracian
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
— Baltasar Gracian
Respect yourself is you would have others respect you.
— Baltasar Gracian
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
— Baltasar Gracian
Be first the master of yourself
— Baltasar Gracian
Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.
— Baltasar Gracian
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
— Baltasar Gracian
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
— Baltasar Gracian
There is no desert like being friendless.
— Baltasar Gracian
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
— Baltasar Gracian
For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
— Baltasar Gracian
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
— Baltasar Gracian
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
— Baltasar Gracian
The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies.
— Baltasar Gracian
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.
— Baltasar Gracian
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.
— Baltasar Gracian
Be open to suggestion, no one is so perfect that they may not need advice from time to time.
— Baltasar Gracian
There is no wilderness like a life without friends.
— Baltasar Gracian
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
— Baltasar Gracian
Hear, see, and be silent.
— Baltasar Gracian
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
— Baltasar Gracian
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
— Baltasar Gracian
Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly.
— Baltasar Gracian
The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.
— Baltasar Gracian
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
— Baltasar Gracian
To overvalue something is a form of lying.
— Baltasar Gracian
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
— Baltasar Gracian
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
— Baltasar Gracian
Know or listen to those who know.
— Baltasar Gracian
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
— Baltasar Gracian
Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.
— Baltasar Gracian
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
— Baltasar Gracian
Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.
— Baltasar Gracian
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
— Baltasar Gracian
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
— Baltasar Gracian
They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.
— Baltasar Gracian
Cultivate those who can teach you.
— Baltasar Gracian
The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.
— Baltasar Gracian
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
— Baltasar Gracian
Truth is for the minority.
— Baltasar Gracian
You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.
— Baltasar Gracian
God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
— Baltasar Gracian
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
— Baltasar Gracian
Diligence removes impossibilities.
— Baltasar Gracian
When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.
— Baltasar Gracian
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
— Baltasar Gracian
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
— Baltasar Gracian
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
— Baltasar Gracian
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
— Baltasar Gracian
Leave your luck while still winning.
— Baltasar Gracian
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
— Baltasar Gracian
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
— Baltasar Gracian
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
— Baltasar Gracian
Life doesn't depend on any one opinion, any one custom, or any one century.
— Baltasar Gracian
Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.
— Baltasar Gracian
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
— Baltasar Gracian
The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.
— Baltasar Gracian
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
— Baltasar Gracian
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
— Baltasar Gracian
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
— Baltasar Gracian
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
— Baltasar Gracian
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
— Baltasar Gracian
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
— Baltasar Gracian
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing
— Baltasar Gracian
There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.
— Baltasar Gracian
Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.
— Baltasar Gracian
Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.
— Baltasar Gracian
Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.
— Baltasar Gracian
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
— Baltasar Gracian
The greatest skill at cards is to know when to discard;
— Baltasar Gracian
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
— Baltasar Gracian
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
— Baltasar Gracian
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
— Baltasar Gracian
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
— Baltasar Gracian
The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
— Baltasar Gracian
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.
— Baltasar Gracian
If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.
— Baltasar Gracian
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
— Baltasar Gracian
Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
— Baltasar Gracian
Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.
— Baltasar Gracian