Friends are a second existence.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Friendship
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Work, Reputation
Begin with another’s to end with your own.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Innovation, Originality
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Perseverance
The things we remember best are those best forgotten.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Memory
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Courtesy, Manners
Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Arguments
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Courage, Boldness
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Knowledge
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Advice
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
—Baltasar Gracian
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Service
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Loss, Losing, Losers, Leadership, Fighting, Fight
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Happiness, Blessings
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Insanity
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Role models, Ambition
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Ability
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Evil
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Imitation
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Brevity
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Getting Going, Procrastination, Action, Inaction, Wisdom
Work is the price that is paid for reputation.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Work
Do something well, and that is quickly enough.
—Baltasar Gracian
Most do violence to their natural aptitude, and this attain superiority in nothing.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Ability
Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Work
The things we remember the best are those better forgotten.
—Baltasar Gracian
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Wishes
He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Fools, Laughter
It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Dignity
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
—Baltasar Gracian
Topics: Silence, One liners
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