MAXIME CXVII.
Never to speak of ones self.
To praise ones self is vanity; to blame, meanness. And what is a defect of wise∣dom
The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.
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- The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.
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- Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
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- London :: Printed by M. Flesher, for Abel Swalle ...,
- 1685.
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- Courts and courtiers.
- Maxims.
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in him that speaks, is a trouble to those that hear him. If that be to be shunned in familiar or domestick conver∣sation, it is more to be avoided in pub∣lick, when one speaks and holds some great post, for then the least folly passes for down-right simplicity. It is the same errour in Prudence to speak of those who are present. For there is danger of split∣ting upon one of two rocks, either of flattery or censure.