Zitate von Balthasar Gracián y Morales
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Balthasar Gracián y Morales:
Zu prunken verstehen. Es ist die Glanzbeleuchtung der Talente; für jedes derselben kommt eine Zeit: Die benutze man, denn nicht jeder Tag wird der des Triumphes sein.
Informationen über Balthasar Gracián y Morales
Jesuit, Schriftsteller, Hochschullehrer, Rektor, "El político Don Fernando el Católico", "El Discreto" (Spanien, 1601 - 1658).
Balthasar Gracián y Morales · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Balthasar Gracián y Morales wäre heute 423 Jahre, 3 Monate, 17 Tage oder 154.605 Tage alt.
Geboren am 08.01.1601 in Belmonte de Calatayud
Gestorben am 06.12.1658 in Tarazona de Aragón
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock
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Weitere 408 Zitate von Balthasar Gracián y Morales
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A weak spirit does more harm than a weak body.
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A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his friends.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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All victories breed hate.
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Ambition is most aroused by the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
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Beauty and folly are generally companions.
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Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter.
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Choose an occupation in which you can win praise. Most things depend upon the satisfaction of others. Esteem is to perfection what the breeze is to flowers: breath and life.
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Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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Evil report carries faster than any applause.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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Fortune often makes up for the eminence of office by the inferiority of the officeholder.
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Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration.
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God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
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He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Hurry is the weakness of fools.