Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Everything has now reached its perfection, and the accomplished person the highest level.
Modern translation by the editorial team, based on the cited French edition.
Title of a maxim, translated from the historical French edition. Read in the context of seventeenth-century court society.
Original French text
Tout est maintenant au point de sa perfection, et l’habile homme au plus haut.L’Homme de cour, maxime I, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684