Baltasar Gracian Quotes

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

I would rather be a free man than be President and a slave.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.

It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

I like to control my own personal life.

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.