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
fools half laughs
One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all
thinking fool
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
wise enemy fool
The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .
doors stupidity fool
Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold.
laughter laughing fool
He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
judgement fool conviction
Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.
fool weakness action
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
man spanish-philosopher
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
argument opponent side taken wrong
Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side
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.
duration favors fortune intensity pays
Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration
integrity done shows
They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.
along arm time truth
Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time
spanish-philosopher
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.