What did Baltasar Gracian mean by: Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement. - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain Copy
+ It is impossible to live without brains, either one’s own or borrowed. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Brain, Mind, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Obscure, Self-improvement, Strive, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ When desire dies, fear is born. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Anxiety, Born, Desire, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Surfeits of happiness are fatal. Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Happiness, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Knowledge, Wise, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ There is no wilderness like a life without friends. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Wilderness, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Integrity, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Anger, Temper, 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
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
I admire [Samuel] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
