Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 January 1601
CountrySpain
dream long way
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
letting-go skills knowing
The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.
great guide piece skill waiting
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it
art great sell wind
It is a great art to know how to sell wind
duration favors fortune intensity pays
Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration
conquered courage difficulty joking later yields
Like love, courage is no joking matter. If it yields once, it will have to yield again, and again. The same difficulty will have to be conquered later on, and it would have been better to get it over with.
belongs
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.