Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life… — 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
