Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 January 1601
CountrySpain
real real-friends existence
Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.
wilderness without-friends
There is no wilderness like a life without friends.
friendship real-friends advice
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
friendship wise men
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
inspirational friendship thankful
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
friendship blessing soul
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.
friendship true-friend real
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
real real-friends important
To keep is more important than to make friends.
friends teacher pleasure
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
friendship enemy provoked
Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.
friends self circumstances
Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.
friends self ideas
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
friendship relationship true-friend
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
man spanish-philosopher
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.