True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island...to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

More from Baltasar Gracian

• A friend is a gift you give yourself.
• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
• The things we remember the best are those better forgotten.
• I think we have the kind of friendship were if I were the devil, you’d be the only one I would tell.
• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.