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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Subject terms: Courts and courtiers.; Maxims.
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MAXIME CCLXXX.

The man of good stuff.

Honesty and integrity are gone: obli∣gations are forgotten. There are but few good Correspondences. The best service has the worst reward. This is the guise of the World now a days. There are whole Nations enclined to evil. Of the one, the treachery is always to be feared; of others the inconstancy; and of some the cheating. Make use then of the bad Correspondence of others, not as an exam∣ple to be imitated; but as a warning to be upon thy guard. Integrity runs a risque of being warped at the sight of a dishonest procedure; but a good man never forgets what he himself is, because of what others are.