“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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Famous Baltasar Gracian Quotes
“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.”
“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.”
“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”
“Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.”
“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.”
“Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.”
“Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.”
“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“When desire dies, fear is born.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.”
“The things we remember best are those better forgotten.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.”