![]() ![]() Unos principios de crédito sirven de despertar la curiosidad, no de empeñar el objecto.If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.Pero el que no pudiere alcançar a tener la sabiduría en servidumbre, lógrela en familiaridad.When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.Que el aviso haga antes viso de recuerdo de lo que olvidava que de luz de lo que no alcançó.Page numbers provided here are from The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle (1992), translated by Christopher Maurer, ISBN 1-1 See also Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647) Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia, the title of which has been translated, as The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion and The Art of Worldly Wisdom, was a collection of maxims. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. ![]() Quotes When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.īaltasar Gracián y Morales ( 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), most widely known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit author regarded as one of the most accomplished prose stylists of the Baroque era. Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. ![]()
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