“Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.”
Saberlos conservar es más que el hazerlos amigos.
Maxim 158 (p. 90)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
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Saberlos conservar es más que el hazerlos amigos.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
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Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher 1601–1658Related quotes
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I better know than all
How little I have gained,
How vast the unattained.”
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