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Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian

“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.”

“Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.”

“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”

“It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.”

“A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.”

“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone”

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

“Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.”

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”

“Work is the price which is paid for reputation”

“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”

If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.

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

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

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

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

Friends are a second existence.