Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• When desire dies, fear is born.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Anxiety, Desire, Born

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

• You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Character, Understanding, Desire

• Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Opportunity, Men

• If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Unhappy, Desire, States

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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