Baltasar Gracián: Doing

Baltasar Gracián was Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Some die because they feel everything, others because they feel nothing. Some are fools because they suffer no regrets, and others because they do.”

Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Unos mueren porque sienten y otros viven porque no sienten. Y assí, unos son necios porque no mueren de sentimiento, y otros lo son porque mueren de él.
Maxim 208 (p. 118)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

“Do something well, and that is quickly enough.”

Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Harto presto, si bien.
Maxim 57 (p. 32)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

“Some people belong entirely to others … They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.”

Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Otros todos son ajenos, que la necedad siempre va por demasías, y aquí infeliz: no tienen día, ni aun hora suya, con tal exceso de ajenos, que alguno fue llamado “el de todos”.
Aun en el entendimiento, que para todos saben y para sí ignoran.
Maxim 252
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

“Because the ignorant do not know themselves, they never know for what they are lacking. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.”

Baltasar Gracián book The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Como los ignorantes no se conocen, tampoco buscan lo que les falta. Serían sabios algunos si no creyessen que lo son.
Maxim 176 (p. 100)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)