Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is...

#Ignorance, #Knowledge

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

#Advice

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

#Ability

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a...

#Ability

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit,...

#Confidence

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity

#Lies

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the...

#Baltasar Gracian

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some...

#Baltasar Gracian

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

#Baltasar Gracian

Begin with another's to end with your own.

#Baltasar Gracian

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy;...

#Baltasar Gracian

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

#Baltasar Gracian