Quotes by Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Spanish Jesuit, writer and philosopher
Alive from: 1601-1658
Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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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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