Baltasar Gracian Friendship Quotes & Sayings

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'. — Kenneth Myers

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed. — Baltasar Gracian

Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful. — Erica Jong

Friendship multiplies blessings and ... soothes the soul. — Baltasar Gracian

Two live grenades that nearly detonated each other. Wave the white flag and count your dead. The war is over. Nurse the wounded and heal your cuts. Write down the memories and tell the tales in later years when you can see the good with the bad. — Kate Monahan

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist. — Honore De Balzac

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. — Baltasar Gracian

Deal with people from whom you can learn — Baltasar Gracian

Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed. — Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends. — Baltasar Gracian

Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies. — Baltasar Gracian

Though such authority and respect shouldn't be handed to all and sundry, have in caution's innermost room a confidant, a faithful mirror, whose correction you value when disillusionment is necessary. — Baltasar Gracian

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on. — Craig D. Lounsbrough