Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Baltasar Gracian quote The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian quote The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian quote There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian quote To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Baltasar Gracian quote True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian quote Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.
Baltasar Gracian quote It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian quote Biography
Spanish philosopher, 1601-58
