Author Topic: ~ Baltasar Gracian Quotes ~ (Read 6482 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:03:42 AM »

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:04:20 AM »

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:04:49 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:05:22 AM »

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:05:53 AM »

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:06:27 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:06:57 AM »

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:07:27 AM »

A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be.

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:08:06 AM »

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:08:38 AM »

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:09:10 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:09:44 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:10:15 AM »

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:10:51 AM »

'No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** December 25, 2013, 10:11:23 AM »

Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

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