Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Sleep, Awake At Night

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

• Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Don't Lie, Whole

  "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Maxim 181, 1647.

• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Knowledge, Knowing

• Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Exaggeration Is, Branches

• Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Perfect, Quality

• The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Liars, Lying, Believe

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 154, 1647.

• Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to
  live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what
  looks like cunning.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Live For Today, Covering

• To overvalue something is a form of lying.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Form

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 41, 1647.

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