11 Quotes by Balthasar Gracian

The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies.

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

Be first the master of yourself

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

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

Criticism, like lightning, strikes the highest peaks.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.