Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracián y Morales, (January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragon). He studied at a Jesuit school in 1621 and 1623 and theology in Zaragoza. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero ( January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC ) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary, distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

                                                                                              "Cicero"

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

                                                                                             "Cicero"

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"A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."

                                                                                           " Cicero "

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"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
                                                                                        " Cicero "
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Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
                                                                                         " Cicero "

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist.

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Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.

                                                                    "Dorothy Parker"

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The friends I made have slipped and strayed.

                                                                    "Dorothy Parker"

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Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller (1874 - 1942) was an American poet and novelist whose long poem The White Cliffs was immensely successful throughout the English-speaking world. First published in September 1940, it sold over a million copies, an unheard of number for a book of verse. Broadcast, filmed and talked about, it had a significant influence in bringing the USA into the war. But it was also a very fine narrative poem in the great tradition of English poetry. Its authoress, who died in 1942, had already made a name for herself as a popular novelist and playwright. But poetry was always her greatest love.

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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

                                                                              "Alice Duer Miller"

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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it.  But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

                                                                              "Alice Duer Miller"

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

                                                                            "Alice Duer Miller"

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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

                                                                           "Alice Duer Miller"

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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

                                                                         "Alice Duer Miller"

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

                                                                         " Virginia Woolf "

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

                                                                       " Virginia Woolf "

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 -23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright,widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

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Some friendship quotes by William Shakespeare

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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

                                                         "William Shakespeare"

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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

                                                       "William Shakespeare"

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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

                                                        "William Shakespeare"

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

                                                      "William Shakespeare"

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706  – 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania.Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as a writer and spokesman in London for several colonies

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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. 

                                                                   "Benjamin Franklin"

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. 

                                                                   "Benjamin Franklin"

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Confucius

Confucius ( 551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period.His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. These values gained prominence in China over other doctrines. Confucius' thoughts have been developed into a system of philosophy known as Confucianism. It was introduced to Europe by the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who was the first to Latinise the name as "Confucius".His teachings may be found in the Analects of Confucius, a collection of "brief aphoristic fragments", which was compiled many years after his death.

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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays. "  

                                                                    Confucius

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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

                                                                 Confucius

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"I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that."

                                                                Confucius

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He is the only U.S. President to hold a Ph.D. degree, which he obtained from Johns Hopkins University.

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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

                                                         "Woodrow Wilson"

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

                                                           "Woodrow Wilson"

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserved the Union, and ended slavery. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives.

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

" By Abraham Lincoln " 

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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

" By Abraham Lincoln " 

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We are not enemies, but friends.  We must not be enemies.  Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.  The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.  

" By Abraham Lincoln " 

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

" By Abraham Lincoln "

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

" By Abraham Lincoln "

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'A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

" By Abraham Lincoln "

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