Facts about Baltasar Gracian

Occup.	Philosopher
From	Spain
Born	January 8, 1601
Died	December 6, 1658
Aged	57 years

Summary

Baltasar Gracian was a famous Philosopher from Spain, who lived between January 8, 1601 and December 6, 1658. He/she became 57 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful. Our collection contains 47 quotes who is written / told by Baltasar, under the main topics: Happiness - Wisdom - Friendship - Dreams.

47 Famous quotes by Baltasar Gracian

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"

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"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave"

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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends"

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"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards"

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"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"

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"The wise does at once what the fool does at last"

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"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything"

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"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence"

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"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness"

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"When desire dies, fear is born"

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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause"

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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment"

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"Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do"

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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong"

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"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one"

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"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade"

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"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone"

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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching"

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"Know or listen to those who know"

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"He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well"

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"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance"

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"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent"

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"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one"

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"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way"

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"The things we remember best are those better forgotten"

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"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity"

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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it"

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"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself"

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"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil"

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"Begin with another's to end with your own"

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"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others"

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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders"

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"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself"

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"Work is the price which is paid for reputation"

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"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit"

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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side"

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"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity"

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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you"

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"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure"

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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose"

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"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check"

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"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it"

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"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave"

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"Evil report carries further than any applause"

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"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all"

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"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are"

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"To oblige persons often costs little and helps much"

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