Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

—Baltasar Gracián

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About Baltasar Gracián

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Baltasar Gracián y Morales (Spanish: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣɾaˈθjan]; 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

—Baltasar Gracián

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

—Baltasar Gracián

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

—Baltasar Gracián

Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.

—Baltasar Gracián

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.

—Baltasar Gracián

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He who stops being better stops being good.

—Oliver Cromwell

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

—Steven Weinberg

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You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.

—Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever

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It is good that fire should burn, even if it consumes your house; it is good that force should crush, even if it crushes you; it is good that rain should fall, even if it destroys your crops and floods your land. Plagues and pestilences attest to the constancy of natural law. They set us to cleaning our streets and houses and to readjusting our relations to outward nature. Only in a live universe could disease and death prevail. Death is a phase of life, a redistributing of the type. Decay is another kind of growth.

—John Burroughs

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There are some forms of religion that are bad; just as there’s bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

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