Baltasar Gracian Quotes
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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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.
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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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.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.