Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. — 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
