Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Quote by Baltasar Gracian

Topics: Ability Quotes

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity

When desire dies, fear is born.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even...

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even...

The more merit, the less affection

The more merit, the less affection

Know or listen to those who know

Know or listen to those who know

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel,...

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel,...

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those...

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those...

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not...

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not...

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

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

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

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but...

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but...

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

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

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...