Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Baltasar Gracian

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Baltasar Gracian

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Baltasar Gracian

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Baltasar Gracian

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Baltasar Gracian

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian

Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian