Baltasar Gracian

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave…

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you…

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds…

Work is the price which is paid for reputation…

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching…

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live…

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil…

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one…

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he…

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

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong…

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to…

Quit while you’re ahead. All the best gamblers do…