Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
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
Live
Populous
Beasts
Truest
Beast
Wild
Places
Cities
More quotes by Baltasar Gracian
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
Baltasar Gracian
It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
Baltasar Gracian
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.
Baltasar Gracian
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
Baltasar Gracian
A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.
Baltasar Gracian
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
Baltasar Gracian
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise luck can be helped by skill.
Baltasar Gracian
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracian
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
Baltasar Gracian
Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
Baltasar Gracian
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
Baltasar Gracian
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
Baltasar Gracian
Beauty and folly are generally companions.
Baltasar Gracian
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
Baltasar Gracian
Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.
Baltasar Gracian
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.
Baltasar Gracian
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Baltasar Gracian
