No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their… — 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
