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Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Wisdom

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

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

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

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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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

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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Friendship

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

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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.

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More Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

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

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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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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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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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

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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

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

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

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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

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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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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

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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.

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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

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Evil report carries further than any applause.

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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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.

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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

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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.

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Browse 63 quotes attributed to Baltasar Gracian, listed in the source data as a Spanish Philosopher, organized around themes such as Wisdom, Friendship, Time. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.