351 Quotes by Baltasar Gracián

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.