Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends . — 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
