Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Know how to spare yourself distress.
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
Savoir s’épargner du chagrin.L’Homme de cour, maxime LXIV, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684