Top 63 Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

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

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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

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

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.