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.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
