Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Words are feminine deeds are masculine.

Begin with anothers to end with your own.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that others slave.

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

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

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.

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

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.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

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

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

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Know or listen to those who know.

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