Quotes by Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

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

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

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

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Know or listen to those who know.