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Baltasar Gracian Quotes About Prudence

Quotes about: Prudence
  • You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

    Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.145, Shambhala Publications
  • An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

    "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián, Maxim 92, 1647.

Baltasar Gracian

  • Born: January 8, 1601
  • Died: December 6, 1658
  • Occupation: Writer
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