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
lying exaggeration-is branches
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
lying form
To overvalue something is a form of lying.
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.
lying dont-lie whole-truth
Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
lying liars believe
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
lying perfect quality
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
truth integrity lying
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
lying sleep awake-at-night
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
loss missing risk
Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
time truth lag
Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.
writing letters chance
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter
dignity offensive attraction
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
fashion achievement promise
Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.
motivation men age
Know the great men of your age.