Top 15 Baltasar Gracián Quotes

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

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

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Be first the master of yourself

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

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

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.