Baltasar Gracian Quotes

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

If people become kinder to each other and begin to forgive some bitterness, if they begin to love their neighbor as the Most High loves us, then I am for it.

I see the good in people, and I believe in forgiveness.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

It's better to be kind than to be right.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.