Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

About Baltasar Gracian:

Baltasar Gracián y Morales was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon). His writings were lauded by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

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Evil report carries further than any applause.

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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.

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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.

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Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

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Knowledge without courage is sterile.

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

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Señal de tener gastada la fama propia es cuidar de la infamia ajena.

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Die Freiheit ist kostbarer als jedes Geschenk, das dich verleiten mag, sie aufzugeben.

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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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We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

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It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

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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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Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If...

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

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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

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

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Know or listen to those who know.

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Author Bio

  • NameBaltasar Gracian
  • DescriptionSpanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher
  • AliasesBalthasar Gracian
  • BornJanuary 8, 1601
  • DiedDecember 6, 1658
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionWriter; Philosopher