Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Take great care not to outshine your master.
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 bien garder de vaincre son maître.L’Homme de cour, maxime VII, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684