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
wise learning ignorance
The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.
happiness
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
ends should
Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end
lying form
To overvalue something is a form of lying.
wisdom believe sage
Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.
wise enemy fool
The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .
usa haze
La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze.
patience no-patience retiring
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
strong heart trust-your-heart
Trust your heart, especially when it is a strong one.
art philosophy past
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
littles too-much would-be
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
lying looks today
Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
spanish-philosopher time withdraw
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
spanish-philosopher
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.