Quotation by Baltasar Gracián
Assess your fortune and your strength before embarking on any undertaking.
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
Sonder sa fortune et ses forces, avant que de s’embarquer dans aucune entreprise.L’Homme de cour, maxime XXXVI, traduction Amelot de la Houssaie, 1684