Clergyman's

“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
– 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

“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”
– 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 him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Know or listen to those who know.”
– Baltasar Gracian

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

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
– Baltasar Gracian

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

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

“Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
– Baltasar Gracian

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

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”
– Baltasar Gracian

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

“When desire dies, fear is born.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.”
– Baltasar Gracian