Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friends, Self, Ideas

• Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friends, Teacher, Pleasure

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

• We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Regret, Men, Pleasure

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

• Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give pleasure to the owner, but in all the rest to the others: what belongs to another rejoices doubly, because it is without the risk of going stale and with the satisfaction of freshness. . . the possession of things not only diminishes their enjoyment, but augments their annoyance, whether shared or not shared.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Giving, Risk, Delight

• Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Pleasure, Pleasant, Pleasant Things

• Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Risk, Novelty, Losing

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 263, 1647.

• All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Men, Self, Fame

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