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.
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.