The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
