Baltasar Gracián y Morales was a Spanish Baroque prose writer. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud .
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“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.”
Baltasar Gracian
“When desire dies, fear is born.”
“Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.”
“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”
“The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places”
“Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.”
“The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.”
“Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time”
“It is a great art to know how to sell wind”
“Like love, courage is no joking matter. If it yields once, it will have to yield again, and again. The same difficulty will have to be conquered later on, and it would have been better to get it over with.”