Baltasar Gracian quotes

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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

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

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

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

Know or listen to those who know.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

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.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

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

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.