Baltasar Gracian Quotes
- What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
- He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.
- Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
- The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
- Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
- Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
- All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
- Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.
- Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
- An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
- The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
- Begin with another's to end with your own.
- Be first the master of yourself
- Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
- You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high…
- It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
- Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration.
- You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
- Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and…
- Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.