WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 08 Nov 2026 23:53:51 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg needed – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Gracián, Baltasar -- The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 5 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)] https://wist.info/gracian-y-morales-baltasar/49083/ https://wist.info/gracian-y-morales-baltasar/49083/#respond Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:00:21 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=49083 The wise man would rather see men needing him than thanking him.

[El sagaz más quiere necessitados de sí que agradecidos.]


Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 5 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]

(Source (Spanish)). Other translations:

A Man of Parts had rather meet with those who depend upon him, than that are thankfull to him.
[Flesher ed. (1685)]

He who knows, desires more that man shall need him than thank him.
[tr. Fischer (1937)]

He who is truly shrewd would rather have people need him than thank him.
[tr. Maurer (1992)]

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