Baltasar Gracián Quotes

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Superiority is always detested.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.