--- title: "14 Should Quotes By Baltasar Gracian" description: "14 Should quotes by Baltasar Gracian. Plus more from Baltasar Gracian and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/baltasar-gracian-1090_forget_a-man-of-honour-should-never-forget-what_2528474.jpg" --- > [A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/a-man-of-honour-should-never-forget-what-he-is-because-he-sees-what/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/baltasar-gracian-1090_forget_a-man-of-honour-should-never-forget-what_2528474.jpg) > [You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/you-should-avoid-making-yourself-too-clear-even-in-your-explanations/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/baltasar-gracian-1090_clear_you-should-avoid-making-yourself-too-cle_345769.jpg) > [You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/you-should-aim-to-be-independent-of-any-one-vote-of-any-one-fashion/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/249/baltasar-gracian-1090_aim_you-should-aim-to-be-independent-of-any_2425083.jpg) > [When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/when-you-counsel-someone-you-should-appear-to-be-reminding-him-of/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/595/baltasar-gracian-1090_advice_when-you-counsel-someone-you-should-appe_200585.jpg) > [He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/he-who-finds-fortune-on-his-side-should-go-briskly-ahead-for-she-is/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c31/baltasar-gracian-1090_boldness_he-who-finds-fortune-on-his-side-should_2020576.jpg) > [Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/oh-life-you-should-never-had-begun-but-since-you-did-you-should-never/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b9/baltasar-gracian-1090_ends_oh-life-you-should-never-had-begun-but-s_2146270.jpg) > [One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/one-should-cultivate-good-habits-of-memory-for-it-is-capable-of/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd3/baltasar-gracian-1090_capable_one-should-cultivate-good-habits-of-memo_1387281.jpg) > [Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/many-get-the-repute-of-being-witty-but-thereby-lose-the-credit-of/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e34/baltasar-gracian-1090_credit_many-get-the-repute-of-being-witty-but-t_2094688.jpg) > [The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/the-great-art-of-giving-consists-in-this-the-gift-should-cost-very/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f8/baltasar-gracian-1090_appreciated_the-great-art-of-giving-consists-in-this_1101998.jpg) > [Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/honorable-beginnings-should-serve-to-awaken-curiosity-not-to-heighten/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/baltasar-gracian-1090_better-off_honorable-beginnings-should-serve-to-awa_1276085.jpg) > [Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/know-how-to-play-the-card-of-contempt-it-is-the-most-politic-kind-of/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfb/baltasar-gracian-1090_cards_know-how-to-play-the-card-of-contempt-it_673540.jpg) > [A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/a-person-of-your-century-great-persons-are-of-their-time-not-all-were/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e25/baltasar-gracian-1090_advantage_a-person-of-your-century-great-persons-a_2251821.jpg) > [Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/many-of-the-things-that-bring-delight-should-not-be-owned-they-are/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01c/baltasar-gracian-1090_annoyance_many-of-the-things-that-bring-delight-sh_238869.jpg) > [Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/do-not-be-inaccessible-none-is-so-perfect-that-he-does-not-need-at/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72f/baltasar-gracian-1090_advice_do-not-be-inaccessible-none-is-so-perfec_2411150.jpg) ## Other authors on Should ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/to-be-at-ease-is-better-than-to-be-at-business-nothing-really-belongs/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/it-requires-as-much-to-tell-the-truth-as-to-conceal-it/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/there-are-friendships-merely-for-pleasure-some-for-the-exchange-of/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/what-is-not-seen-is-as-if-it-was-not-even-the-right-does-not-receive/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/what-the-multitude-says-is-so-or-soon-will-be-so/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/a-synonym-is-a-word-you-use-when-you-can-t-spell-the-other-one/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/it-is-good-to-vary-in-order-that-you-may-frustrate-the-curious/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/hope-has-a-good-memory-gratitude-a-bad-one/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/knowing-how-to-keep-a-friend-is-more-important-than-gaining-a-new-one/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [Leave your luck while still winning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/leave-your-luck-while-still-winning/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [Superiority is always detested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/superiority-is-always-detested/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/we-have-eyelids-but-not-earlids-for-the-ears-are-the-portals-of/) [Baltasar Gracián](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) > [The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/the-wise-persono-would-rather-see-others-needing-him-than-thanking-him/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/no-one-demands-more-caution-than-a-spy-and-when-someone-has-the/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/keep-the-extent-of-your-abilities-unknown-the-wise-man-does-not-allow/) [Baltasar Gracian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baltasar-gracian/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/should/baltasar-gracian/#itemlist", "name": "14 Should Quotes By Baltasar Gracian", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Baltasar Gracian" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baltasar-gracian/a-man-of-honour-should-never-forget-what-he-is-because-he-sees-what/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25c/baltasar-gracian-1090_forget_a-man-of-honour-should-never-forget-what_2528474.jpg", "contentUrl": 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