When desire dies, fear is born.
Quote by Baltasar Gracian
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotes
- Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
- To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
- Know or listen to those who know.
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Best Quotes
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
- I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
- For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
- Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.