Author of quotes: Baltasar Gracian-and-Morales. Page 2

Be skillful in anger. Since may let sober reflection, will prevent rough flash - wise for this. The first step to mastering anger is to notice that yield to it, thereby prevail over excitation, determining up to what point - and no further - needs to go anger; thinking about it, you're overcome with anger, already simmering down. Decent and be able to stop in time - difficult to stop a horse at full gallop. The real test of sanity, even in a fit of madness to stay sane. The excess of passion always deviates from the right path: with this in mind, you will never violate justice, do not transgress the bounds of prudence. Only harnessing the passion, will save on her power - and then you'll be the first "wise on horseback", if not the only one.

Possible sorrows turn to joy, then to be able to live.

So in the conversation to be pleasant, prinorovilsya to the character and mind of the interlocutors. Don't act the censor of foreign words and expressions, otherwise you will be deemed a pedant; especially do not find fault with the thoughts and opinions, and that you will avoid, even at all will turn on you.

All people a high opinion of himself - and the more one thinks, the less worth it.

Conceited fussiness always obnoxious, in ridiculous.

Learn to control himself, so that neither in happiness nor in not happiness you are not condemned for incontinence, but marveled at the height of the spirit.

Loving - long-lasting. Want to live, let live. The peace-lover don't just live, they luxuriate. Need to see, everything to hear - silence.
Really true - a good night's sleep. To live long and to live it is gratifying to live for two, and is the fruit of the world. Who doesn't worry about what does not concern him, - the enjoyer. Every little thing to do the problem - the waste of time. Stupid and grieve all your soul that not important to you - not at the same time with a tip of his finger that for you significantly.

You see one lion, you've seen them all; see one sheep, too, saw all; but one person to see - to see only one person, and that not to recognize.

To convince bad all, bad willing to believe, even implausible.

With women there is no life, but without them it is not.

Pretending to be deaf hears more than I would like.

Sometimes the best cure for trouble is to forget about her, but about the medicine we forget.

One failure - one success outweighs.

To announce the plan, to destroy him: then it ahead of time to find faults and fail - would be doubly unfortunate.