Baltasar Gracián on friendship

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

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus1913–1960

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’

C. S. Lewis1898–1963