Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Speak like ordinary people, but think like the wise.
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
Parler comme le vulgaire, mais penser comme les sages.L’Homme de cour, maxime XLIII, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684