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Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Baltasar Gracian quotes

Spanish Philosopher January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658

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Baltasar Gracian quote: "A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. Baltasar Gracian
Say farewell to luck when winning. It is the way of the gamblers of reputation. Quite as important as a gallant advance is a well-planned retreat. Lock up your winnings when they are enough, or when great. Continuous luck is always suspect; more secure is that which changes. Though half bitter and half sweet, it is more satisfying to the taste. The more luck pyramids, the greater the danger of slip and collapse. For luck always compensates her intensity by her brevity. Fortune wearies of... Baltasar Gracian
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others. Baltasar Gracian
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful. Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a..."
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard."
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard. Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do."
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "The things we remember best are those better forgotten."
The things we remember best are those better forgotten. Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. Baltasar Gracian
Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the... Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable..."
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno. Baltasar Gracian
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. 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 desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great. Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will..."
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian quote: "He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing,..."
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian

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