Art Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

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

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

— Baltasar Gracian

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

— Baltasar Gracian

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

— Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

— Baltasar Gracian

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

— Baltasar Gracian

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

— Baltasar Gracian

Leave your luck while still winning.

— Baltasar Gracian

Superiority is always detested.

— Baltasar Gracian

“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.”

— Baltasar Gracián

The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.

— Baltasar Gracian

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of…

— Baltasar Gracian

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he…

— Baltasar Gracian