Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracian

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The Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher Baltasar Gracian is someone whose pithy observations have become part of everyday conversation. Celebrated for Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher, Baltasar Gracian brought that same intensity to the written and spoken word. Our collection holds 40 quotes from Baltasar Gracian, each offering a different angle on Good, Friendship, Best, Wisdom, and Motivational. Start here and see if you agree: "True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."

“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Anger

All Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Courage

“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Alone

“Know or listen to those who know.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Motivational

“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Friendship

“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Communication

“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.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Business

“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Patience

“Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Anger

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Motivational

“Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Happiness

“He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Alone

“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Knowledge

“Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Best

“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Anger

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Friendship

“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Dreams

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Art

“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Friendship

“Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Hope

“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”

— Baltasar Gracian

Respect