Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Do not let the voices of fame praise you too highly.
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
N’être point trop prôné par les bruits de la renommée.L’Homme de cour, maxime XIX, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684