Baltasar Gracian Advice Quotations

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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.

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others.

Leave your luck while still winning.

A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him.

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.