Doe Quote by Baltasar Gracian Download Open image “The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .” — Baltasar Gracian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Enemy Fool Friendship Persons Wisdom Wise Wise person
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
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Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
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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
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
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One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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