To keep is more important than to make friends. Select those that will wear well; if they are new at first, it is some consolation they will become o… - Baltasar Gracián

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To keep is more important than to make friends. Select those that will wear well; if they are new at first, it is some consolation they will become old…

There is no desert like living without friends. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. It is the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

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About Baltasar Gracián

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), most widely known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit author regarded as one of the most accomplished prose stylists of the Baroque era.

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Pen Names: Lorenzo Gracián
Alternative Names: Balthasar Gracian Baltasar Gracian Baltasar Gracián y Morales

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Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. This rule does not hold true for bad things: when an evil has been exaggerated, its reality makes people applaud. What was feared as ruinous comes to seem tolerable.

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