About Author : Baltasar Gracian Morales was a Spanish Baroque prose writer. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon).
Baltasar Gracian Sayings and Quotes
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself though even there he will have to put up with himself.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious especially those who envy you.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
At a man is a peacock at a lion at a camel at a serpent at a dog at an ape and at nothing.
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
It is impossible to live without brains either one’s own or borrowed.
There is none who cannot teach somebody something and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people nor for others easier.
Without courage wisdom bears no fruit.
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.
Never do anything when you are in a temper for you will do everything wrong.
Do pleasant things yourself but unpleasant things through others.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
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.
All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.