Baltasar Gracián Quote

Complaints will always discredit you. Rather than compassion and consolation, they provoke passion and insolence, and encourage those who hear our complaints to behave like those we complain about. Once divulged to others, the offenses done to us seem to make others pardonable. Some complain of past offenses and give rise to future ones.


The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)


Complaints will always discredit you. Rather than compassion and consolation, they provoke passion and insolence, and encourage those who hear our...

Complaints will always discredit you. Rather than compassion and consolation, they provoke passion and insolence, and encourage those who hear our...

Complaints will always discredit you. Rather than compassion and consolation, they provoke passion and insolence, and encourage those who hear our...

Complaints will always discredit you. Rather than compassion and consolation, they provoke passion and insolence, and encourage those who hear our...