There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends . — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
