Tag: Baltasar Gracian

“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, and at eighty nothing.”

– Baltasar Gracian

The great art of giving consists in this: The gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

– Baltasar Gracian

“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.”

– Baltasar Gracian