Baltasar Gracian
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.Collection: Wise
All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.Collection: Hate
Success rarely brings satisfaction.Collection: Success
Know the great men of your age.Collection: Inspiring
The more merit, the less affection.Collection: Merit
There is no desert like being friendless.Collection: Desert
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.Collection: Friendship
There is no wilderness like a life without friends.Collection: Wilderness
Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.Collection: Art
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.Collection: Ambition
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.Collection: Memories
Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never endCollection: Ends
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.Collection: Cities
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.Collection: Friendship
There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.Collection: Popularity
The path to greatness is along with others.Collection: Teamwork
La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.Collection: Usa
Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.Collection: Evil
Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.Collection: Philosophy
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.Collection: Doors
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.Collection: Heart
Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.Collection: Passion
Knowledge without courage is sterile.Collection: Courage
Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.Collection: Long
Admiration is the basis of ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.Collection: Human Nature
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.Collection: Perfect
They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.Collection: Integrity
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.Collection: Strength
To keep is more important than to make friends.Collection: Real
Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.Collection: Wisdom
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.Collection: Inspirational
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.Collection: Power
He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.Collection: Procrastination
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and thus attain superiority in nothing.Collection: Violence
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.Collection: Favors
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.Collection: Friendship
There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.Collection: Revenge
The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.Collection: Simple
To be at ease is better than to be at business.Collection: Work
Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.Collection: Art
Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.Collection: Deeds
Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.Collection: Knowledge
The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.Collection: Wise
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.Collection: Fingers
Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.Collection: Wise
An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.Collection: Pounds
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.Collection: Choices
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.Collection: Writing