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
sports memorial-day hero
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
justice sole advantage
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
friends teacher pleasure
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
excellence quality quantity
Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
reality secret slave
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
gratitude memories good-memories
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
water thirst wells
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
lying perfect quality
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
lying liars believe
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
expectations advice promise
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.
happiness happy wish
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
solitude sage beast
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
fall giving woe
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
real real-friends important
To keep is more important than to make friends.