Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian


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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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- It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

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

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

Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
- The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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- All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

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

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- Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

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- Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

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- Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

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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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- Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

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- The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.