#in

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#anything #everything #never #temper #will

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#always #leave #miserable #otherwise #something

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#arrive #beginnings #being #common #endings

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#contend #lose #man #never #nothing

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#great #great piece #guide #how #know

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#content #leave #others #talking

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#advice #grave #joke #more #sometimes

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#afterwards #awake #beforehand #better #lie

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#excelled #excellent #none #somebody #something