What did Baltasar Gracian mean by: If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would. - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain Copy
+ God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time. Feraz Zeid, August 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Time, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Begin with another’s to end with your own. Feraz Zeid, September 11, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Creativity, End, Originality, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ The more merit, the less affection. Feraz Zeid, October 1, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Affection, Merit, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Feraz Zeid, September 13, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Human, Multitudes, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Lying, Sleep, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Keep to yourself the final touches of your art. Feraz Zeid, September 26, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Art, Artistic, Finals, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Courtesy, Great Person, Manners, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness. Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Pounds, Prudence, Wit, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. - Homer Poet · Greece
