Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Always make yourself necessary.
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
Se rendre toujours nécessaire.L’Homme de cour, maxime V, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684