Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 January 1601
CountrySpain
Baltasar Gracian quotes about
friends self ideas
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
afterwards awake beforehand lie pillow silent sleep
The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards