Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Know the fortunate, so you can make use of them, and the unfortunate, so you can keep away from them.
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
Connaître les gens heureux, pour s’en servir ; et les malheureux, pour s’en écarter.L’Homme de cour, maxime XXXI, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684