Words matter. These are the best Baltasar Gracian Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Don’t show off every day, or you’ll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Have friends. ‘Tis a second existence.
Begin with another’s to end with your own.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
When desire dies, fear is born.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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.
Know or listen to those who know.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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.
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
