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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MAXIME XXXIV.

To know ones own strength.

That knowledge serves to cultivate the excellent and improve common endow∣ments. Many would have become great men, had they known their true Talent. Strive then to know thine own, and join to it application. In some judgment has the advantage, and in others courage: most part lay a constraint upon their Ge∣nius: whence it is that they never excell in any thing. One is late in forsaking what passion made him early espouse.

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