Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Do not enter where too much is anticipated. It is the misfortune of the over-celebrated that they cannot measure up to excessive expectations. The actual can never attain the imagined: for to think perfection is easy, but to embody it is most difficult. The imagination weds the wish, and together they always conjure up more than reality can furnish. For however great may be a person’s virtues, the will never measure up to what was imagined. When people see themselves cheated in their extravagant anticipations, they turn more quickly to disparagement than to praise. Hope is a great falsifier of the truth; the the intelligence put her right by seeing to it that the fruit is superior to its appetite. You will make a better exit when the actual transcends the imagined, and is more than was expected.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
– Baltasar Gracian

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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Politeness is the chief sign of culture.
– Baltasar Gracian

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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
– Baltasar Gracian

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
– Baltasar Gracian

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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.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
– Baltasar Gracian

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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
– Baltasar Gracian

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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 a good fortune;to keep him is a blessing.
– Baltasar Gracian

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
– Baltasar Gracian

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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
– Baltasar Gracian

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