What did Baltasar Gracian mean by: Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain Copy
+ He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Reality, Secret, Slave, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Quiet, Running, Trouble, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Helping, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity. Feraz Zeid, October 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Integrity, Lying, Truth, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. Feraz Zeid, June 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Funny, Wisdom, Wise, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. Feraz Zeid, October 25, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Adoration, Divinity, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Political, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance. Feraz Zeid, August 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Ignorance, Learn, Wise, 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