Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 January 1601
CountrySpain
Baltasar Gracian quotes about
long favors pay
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
trying deceit deceiving
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
winning shining advice
Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
wisdom war anger
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
birthday justice age
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
success goal people
Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
life brain mind
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
memories paradise habit
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
excellent devices acquire
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
knowledge sight information
We live by information, not by sight.
work skills kind
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
work ease
To be at ease is better than to be at business.
conversation folly ifs
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
memories remember forgotten
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.