Baltasar Gracian

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

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

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for read more

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up read more

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

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