Baltasar Gracian ( 10 of 23 )
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The read more
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - read more
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
The more merit, the less affection
The more merit, the less affection
One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.
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.
