Baltasar Gracian ~ “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”#quotes #motivation

Baltasar Gracián y Morales was born in Belmonte de Gracián in 1601 and died in Tarazona in 1658. The son of a civil servant, he studied at the Jesuit college in Calatayud and at the University of Huesca. In 1619 he joined the Company of Jesus. He was ordained a priest in 1635. He was confessor to the Viceroy Nochera, whom he accompanied to Madrid where he became friends with the poet Hurtado de Mendoza. His enemies within the Jesuit order saw to it that he was sent in punishment to Lerida to quash the Catalan revolt. He was briefly secretary to Philip IV. His health declined after a long period of punishment on a diet of bread and water imposed by Jacinto Piquer, the provincial of Aragon (the religious superior of a province). The influence of his work, elegant and pessimistic, persisted until post-modern times.

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