MAXIME CCLXXIX.
To suffer Contradiction without Gain-saying.
It is to be distinguished when Contra∣diction proceeds from Cunning or Clow∣nishness. For it is not always an Opinio∣nativeness,
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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- Title
- The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.
- Author
- Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by M. Flesher, for Abel Swalle ...,
- 1685.
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- Courts and courtiers.
- Maxims.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41733.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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Page 256
sometimes it is Artifice. Take heed then not to engage into the one, nor to stumble into the other. There is no pains better bestowed than in spying: nor no better counter-battery against those, who would pick the lock of the heart, than to put the key of reserve in the inside. See the Maxime 179.