Quotes from Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

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

When desire dies, fear is born.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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

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

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

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

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Know or listen to those who know.

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

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

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.