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Baltasar Gracian [1601-1658] Spanish

Rank: 101
Philosopher, Prose writer

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, 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.

Friendship, Good, Alone, Anger, Knowledge, Motivational, Wisdom, Art, Chance, Communication, Courage, Dreams, God, Great, Happiness, Jealousy, Life, Nature, Patience, Respect, Teacher

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Friendship, Good, Life	101
Know or listen to those who know.	Motivational	102
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.	Dreams, Good	103
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.		104
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.		105
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.	Great	106
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.	Alone, God	107
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.		108
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.	Friendship, Good	109
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.	Knowledge	110
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.	Respect	111
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.		112
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.	Art, Nature	113
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.	Communication	114
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.		115
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.		116
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.	Jealousy	117
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.	Friendship	118
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.	Alone, Wisdom	119
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.		120
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.		121
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.		122
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.		123
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.	Happiness	124
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.		125
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.	Anger	126
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.	Courage, Wisdom	201
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.		202
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.		203
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.		204
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.		205
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.		206
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.	Patience	207
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.		208
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.		209
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.		210
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.	Motivational	211
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.	Teacher	212
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.	Knowledge	213
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.	Anger	214
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.	Chance	215
When desire dies, fear is born.		216
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.		217
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.		218
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.		219
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.		220
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.		221
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.		222
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.		223
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.		224
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.		225
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.		226
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.		301
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.		302
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.		303
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.		304
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.		305
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.		306
Begin with another's to end with your own.		307
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.		308
Evil report carries further than any applause.		309
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.		310
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.		311

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