-
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian -
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
Baltasar Gracian
-
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.
Baltasar Gracian -
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian -
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Baltasar Gracian -
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
Baltasar Gracian -
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar Gracian -
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian
-
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.
Baltasar Gracian -
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian -
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian -
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Baltasar Gracian -
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Baltasar Gracian -
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
Baltasar Gracian
-
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
Baltasar Gracian -
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian -
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Baltasar Gracian -
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian -
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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
-
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian -
Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power
Baltasar Gracian -
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.
Baltasar Gracian -
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
Baltasar Gracian