Baltasar Gracian Quotes

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.
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Baltasar gracian - he who finds fortune on his side should go...
Baltasar gracian - the wise man does at once what the fool does...
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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Baltasar gracian - there is none who cannot teach somebody...
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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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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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
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Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
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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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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.
Baltasar Gracian
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Baltasar Gracian