Baltasar Gracian
Spanish Jesuit and philosopher
Lived from: 1601 - 1658
Category: Philosophers Country: 
Spain
Born: 8 january 1601 Died: 6 december 1658
Quotes 21 till 40 of 82.
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Do something well, and that is quickly enough.
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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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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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Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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Few are the friends of a man's self, most those of his circumstances.
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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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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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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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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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