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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"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 24, 2025.
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MAXIME XCIII.
The universal Man.
The man who possesses all sorts of per∣fections, is alone worth a great many others. He renders life happy by com∣municating to others. Variety joined to perfection is the recreation of life. It is great skill to know how to furnish ones self with all that is good. And since na∣ture hath in man, as in the most excel∣lent of her works, made an abridgment of the whole Universe, Art ought also to
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make of the mind of man an universe of knowledge and vertue.
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