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
lying exaggeration-is branches
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
lying form
To overvalue something is a form of lying.
lying looks today
Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
lying dont-lie whole-truth
Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.
lying liars believe
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
lying perfect quality
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.
lying knowledge knowing
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
truth integrity lying
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
lying sleep awake-at-night
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
door greater invariably lesser open spanish-philosopher
Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
argument opponent side taken wrong
Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side
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.
harm spirit weak
A weak spirit does more harm than a weak body.
forty judgment thirty twenty
At twenty the will rules, At thirty the intellect, At forty the judgment