Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
Baltasar GracianRead
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.
Interpretation
True friendship enhances our lives and helps us cope with hardships.
This quote emphasizes the transformative power of genuine friendship, suggesting that true friends amplify our joys and help mitigate our sorrows. The metaphor of life without friends being akin to being stranded on a desert island highlights the isolation one might feel without companionship, while recognizing that finding and maintaining a loyal friend is a rare and invaluable gift.
In practice
During a speech at a graduation ceremony.
Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.
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