Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground
Baltasar Gracian
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Baltasar Gracian
Age: 57 †
Born: 1601
Born: January 16
Died: 1658
Died: December 6
Jesuit
Philosopher
Writer
Belmonte de Gracian
Balthasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
House
Others
Come
Whole
Deceit
Many
Ground
Must
Air
Needs
Soon
Built
More quotes by Baltasar Gracian
Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
Baltasar Gracian
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
Baltasar Gracian
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
Baltasar Gracian
To be at ease is better than to be at business.
Baltasar Gracian
Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
Baltasar Gracian
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
Baltasar Gracian
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
Baltasar Gracian
Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracian
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Baltasar Gracian
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian
It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.
Baltasar Gracian
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
Baltasar Gracian
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
Baltasar Gracian
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.
Baltasar Gracian
Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare much lowers value.
Baltasar Gracian
For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.
Baltasar Gracian
