3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian 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.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
3 December 2020 Baltasar Gracian Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
