Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Quote by Baltasar Gracian
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Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotes
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
- Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
- True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
- Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- Know or listen to those who know.
- He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
- Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
- Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
Best Quotes
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
- I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
- Abused patience turns to fury.
- God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.