WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:19:15 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg obliging – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Gracián, Baltasar -- The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 226 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)] https://wist.info/gracian-y-morales-baltasar/56774/ https://wist.info/gracian-y-morales-baltasar/56774/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:29:01 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=56774 To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

[Cuesta a veces muy poco el obligar, y vale mucho.]


Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 226 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]
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(Source (Spanish)). Alternate translations:

Sometime the care of engaging costs but very little, and is worth a great deal.
[Flesher ed. (1685)]

To be obliging usually costs but little; yet it is worth much.
[tr. Fischer (1937)]

Pleasing others costs little and is worth much.
[tr. Maurer (1992)]

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