Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Disprove the faults attributed to your nation.
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
Démentir les défauts de sa nation.L’Homme de cour, maxime IX, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684