Quotes About Gracian

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

The sense of taste is able to gain the distance necessary for choosing and judging what is the most urgent necessity of life. Thus Gracian already sees in taste a "spiritualization of animality" and rightly points out that there is cultivation (cultura) not only of the mind (ingenio) but also of taste (gusto).