Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Quote by Baltasar Gracian

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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being...

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being...

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel,...

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel,...

Work is the price which is paid for reputation

Work is the price which is paid for reputation

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

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.

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

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

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...

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

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...

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

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...

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

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

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into...

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into...

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should...

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should...