Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.
Baltasar GracianEven monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
Baltasar GracianIt is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
Baltasar Gracian