What did Baltasar Gracian mean by: Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances. - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain Copy
+ If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Desire, Unhappy, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. Feraz Zeid, August 11, 2023December 12, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Advice, Friendship, Real Friends, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023February 6, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Fame, Self, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ It is impossible to live without brains, either one’s own or borrowed. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Brain, Mind, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Easier, Wisdom, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Art, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter’s pencil. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baltasar Gracian, Ugly, Writing, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
+ When desire dies, fear is born. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 26, 2023, Baltasar Gracian, Anxiety, Born, Desire, 0 - Baltasar Gracian Writer · Spain
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
