Quote of Baltasar Gracian - Hope has a good memory, gratitude...
Biography - Baltasar Gracian:
Spanish Jesuit and philosopher.
Born: 1601 - Died: 1658
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: Spain
Born: 1601 - Died: 1658
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: Spain
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about hope:
Quotes for: Gratitude
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Quotes for: Forgetting
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
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