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
real real-friends existence
Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.
reality expectations people
Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
friendship real-friends advice
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
inspirational business reality
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
friendship true-friend real
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
real real-friends important
To keep is more important than to make friends.
reality secret slave
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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
destroys integrity lie reputation single
A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity
fools half laughs
One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all