Baltasar Gracian quotes

“We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.”

— Baltasar Gracian

“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

“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.”

— Baltasar Gracian