Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

— Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

— Baltasar Gracian

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

— Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

— Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

— Baltasar Gracian

Friends are a second existence.

— Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. This the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.

— Baltasar Gracian

Good things when short are twice as good.

— Baltasar Gracian

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

— Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

— Baltasar Gracian