The Art of Worldly Wisdom: Introduction: Leading Maxims
The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Balthasar Gracian, tr. by Joseph Jacobs, [1892]
| i | Everything is at its Acme (Todo está ya en su punto) | 1 |
| ii | Character and Intellect (Genio y ingenio) | 1 |
| iii | Keep Matters for a Time in Suspense (Llevar sus cosas con suspencion) | 2 |
| iv | Knowledge and Courage (El saber y el valor) | 3 |
| v | Create a Feeling of Dependence (Hazer depender) | 3 |
| vi | A Man at his Highest Point (Hombre en su pinto) | 3 |
| vii | Avoid Victories over Superiors (Escusar vitorias del patron) | 4 |
| viii | To be without Passions (Hombre inapasionable) | 5 |
| ix | Avoid the Faults of your Nation (Desmentir los achaques de su nation) | 5 |
| x | Fortune and Fame (Fortuna y Fama) | 6 |
| xi | Cultivate those who can teach you (Tratar con quien se pueda aprender) | 6 |
| xii | Nature and Art (Naturaleza y Arte) | 7 |
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| xiii | Act sometimes on Second Thoughts, sometimes on First Impulse (Obrar de intencion, ya segunda y ya primera) | 7 |
| xiv | The Thing Itself and the Way it is done (La realidad ye el modo) | 8 |
| xv | Keep Ministering Spirits (Tener ingenios auxiliares) | 9 |
| xvi | Knowledge and Good Intentions (Saber con recta intention) | 10 |
| xvii | Vary the Mode of Action (Variar de tenor en el obrar) | 10 |
| xviii | Application and Ability (Aplicacion y Minerva) | 11 |
| xix | Arouse no Exaggerated Expectations on entering (No entrar con sobrada expectation) | 11 |
| xx | A Man of the Age (Hombre en su siglo) | 12 |
| xxi | The Art of being Lucky (Arte para ser dichoso) | 13 |
| xxii | A Man of Knowledge to the Point (Hombre de plausibles noticias) | 13 |
| xxiii | Be Spotless (No tener algun desdoro) | 14 |
| xxiv | Keep the Imagination under Control (Templar la imaginacion) | 14 |
| xxv | Know how to take a Hint (Buen entendedor) | 15 |
| xxvi | Find out each Man's Thumbscrew (Hallarle su torcedor á cada uno) | 15 |
| xxvii | Prize Intensity more than Extent (Pagarse mas de Intenciones que de Extenciones) | 16 |
| xxviii | Common in Nothing (En nada vulgar) | 16 |
| xxix | A Man of Rectitude (Hombre de entereza) | 17 |
| xxx | Have naught to do with Occupations of Ill-repute (No hazer profesion de empleos desautorizados) | 18 |
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| xxxi | Select the Lucky and avoid the Unlucky (Conocer los afortunados para la election y los desdichados para la fuga) | 18 |
| xxxii | Have the Reputation of being Gracious (Estar en opinion de dár gusto) | 19 |
| xxxiii | Know how to Withdraw (Saber abstraer) | 19 |
| xxxiv | Know your strongest Point (Conocer su realce Rey) | 20 |
| xxxv | Think over Things, most over the most Important (Hazer concepto y mas de lo que importa mas) | 20 |
| xxxvi | In Acting or Refraining, weigh your Luck (Tener tanteada su Fortuna, para el proceder, para desempeñarse) | 21 |
| xxxvii | Keep a Store of Sarcasms, and know how to use them (Conocer y saber usar de las varrillas) | 22 |
| xxxviii | Leave your Luck while Winning (Saberse dexar ganando con la fortuna) | 23 |
| xxxix | Recognise when Things are ripe, and then enjoy them (Conocer las cosas en su punto, en su sazon y saberlas lograr) | 23 |
| xl | The Goodwill of People (Gracia de las gentes) | 24 |
| xli | Never Exaggerate (Nunca exagerar) | 24 |
| xlii | Born to command (Del natural Imperio) | 25 |
| xliii | Think with the Few and speak with the Many (Sentir con los menos y hablar con los mas) | 25 |
| xliv | Sympathy with great Minds (Simpatía con los grandes varones) | 26 |
| xiv | Use, but do not abuse, Cunning (Usar, no abusar de las reflexas) | 27 |
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| xlvi | Master your Antipathies (Corregir su antipatia) | 27 |
| xlvii | Avoid "Affairs of Honour" (Huir los empeño) | 28 |
| xlviii | Be Thorough (Hombre con fondos) | 28 |
| xlix | Observation and judgment (Hombre juyzioso y notante) | 29 |
| l | Never lose Self-respect (Nunca perderse el respeto á sí mismo) | 29 |
| li | Know how to Choose well (Hombre de buena election) | 30 |
| lii | Never be put out (Nunca descomponerse) | 30 |
| liii | Diligent and Intelligent (Diligente y inteligente) | 31 |
| liv | Know how to show your Teeth (Tener brios á lo cuerdo) | 31 |
| lv | Wait (Hombre de espera) | 32 |
| lvi | Have Presence of Mind (Tener buenos repentes) | 33 |
| lvii | Slow and Sure (Mas seguros son los pensados) | 33 |
| lviii | Adapt Yourself to your Company (Saberse atemperar) | 34 |
| lix | Finish off well (Hombre de buen dexo) | 34 |
| lx | A Sound judgment (Buenos dictamenes) | 35 |
| lxi | To Excel in what is Excellent (Eminencia en lo mejor) | 35 |
| lxii | Use good Instruments (Obrar con buenos instrumentos) | 36 |
| lxiii | To be the First of the Kind is an Excellence (Excelencia de primero) | 36 |
| lxiv | Avoid Worry (Saberse escusar pesares) | 37 |
| lxv | Elevated Taste (Gusto relevante) | 37 |
| lxvi | See that Things end well (Atencion que salgan bien las cosas) | 38 |
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| lxvii | Prefer Callings en Evidence (Preferir los empleos plausibles) | 39 |
| lxviii | It is better to help with Intelligence than with Memory (Dar entendimiento es de mas primor que el dár memoria) | 39 |
| lxix | Do not give way to every common Impulse (No rendirse á un vulgar humor) | 40 |
| lxx | Know how to Refuse (Saber negar) | 41 |
| lxxi | Do not Vacillate (No ser desigual) | 42 |
| lxxii | Be Resolute (Hombre de resolution) | 42 |
| lxxiii | Utilise Slips (Saber usar del desliz) | 43 |
| lxxiv | Do not be Unsociable (No ser intratable) | 43 |
| lxxv | Choose an Heroic Ideal (Elegir idea heroyca) | 44 |
| lxxvi | Do not always be jesting (No estár siempre de burlas) | 45 |
| lxxvii | Be all Things to all Men (Saber hazerse á todos) | 45 |
| lxxviii | The Art of undertaking Things (Arte en el intentar) | 46 |
| lxxix | A Genial Disposition (Genio genial) | 46 |
| lxxx | Take care to get Information (Atencion al informarse) | 47 |
| lxxxi | Renew your Brilliance (Usar el renovar su lucimiento) | 47 |
| lxxxii | Drain Nothing to the Dregs, neither Good nor Ill (Nunca apurar, ni el mal, ni el bien) | 48 |
| lxxxiii | Allow Yourself some venial Fault (Permitese algun venial desliz) | 48 |
| lxxxiv | Make use of your Enemies (Saber usar de los enemigos) | 49 |
| lxxxv | Do not play Manille (No ser malilla) | 50 |
| lxxxvi | Prevent Scandal (Prevenir las malas vozes) | 50 |
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| lxxxvii | Culture and Elegance (Cultura y aliño) | 51 |
| lxxxviii | Let your Behaviour be Fine and Noble (Sea el trato por mayor procurando la sublimida en él) | 52 |
| lxxxix | Know Yourself (Comprehension de sí) | 52 |
| xc | The Secret of Long Life (Arte para vivir mucho) | 53 |
| xci | Never set to work at Anything if you have any Doubts of its Prudence (Obrar siempre sin escrupolos de imprudencia) | 53 |
| xcii | Transcendant Wisdom (Seso transcendental) | 54 |
| xciii | Versatility (Hombre universal) | 54 |
| xciv | Keep the extent of your Abilities unknown (Incomprehensibilidad de caudal) | 55 |
| xcv | Keep Expectation alive (Saber entretenir la expectation) | 55 |
| xcvi | The highest Discretion (De la gran sinderesis) | 55 |
| xcvii | Obtain and preserve a Reputation (Conseguir y conservar la reputation) | 56 |
| xcviii | Write your Intentions in Cypher (Cifrar la voluntad) | 56 |
| xcix | Reality and Appearance (Realidad y aparencia) | 57 |
| c | A Man without Illusions, a wise Christian, a philosophic Courtier (Varon desengañado, Christiana sabio, Cortesano filosofo) | 57 |
| ci | One half of the World laughs at the other, and Fools are they all (La mitad del mundo se está riendo á la otra mitad, con necedad de todos) | 58 |
| cii | Be able to stomach big slices of Luck (Estomago para grander bocados de la fortuna) | 58 |
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| ciii | Let each keep up his Dignity (Cada uno la magestad en su modo) | 59 |
| civ | Try your hand at Office (Tener tomado el pulso á los empleos) | 59 |
| cv | Don't be a Bore (No cansar) | 60 |
| cvi | Do not parade your Position (No afectar la fortuna) | 61 |
| cvii | Show no Self-satisfaction (No mostrar satisfaccion de sí) | 62 |
| cviii | The Path to Greatness is along with Others (Atajo para ser persona, saber ladear) | 62 |
| cix | Be not Censorious (No ser acriminador) | 63 |
| cx | Do not wait till you are a Sinking Sun (No aguardar á ser sol que se pone) | 63 |
| cxi | Have Friends (Tener amigos) | 64 |
| cxii | Gain Good-will (Ganar la pia aficcion) | 65 |
| cxiii | In Prosperity prepare for Adversity (Prevenirse en la fortuna prospera para la adversa) | 65 |
| cxiv | Never Compete (Nunca competir) | 66 |
| cxv | Get used to the Failings of your Familiars (Hazerse á las malas condiciones de los familiares) | 66 |
| cxvi | Only act with Honourable Men (Tratar siempre con gente de obligaciones) | 67 |
| cxvii | Never talk of Yourself (Nunca hablar de sí) | 67 |
| cxviii | Acquire the Reputation of Courtesy (Cobrar fama de cortés) | 68 |
| cxix | Avoid becoming Disliked (No hazerse de mal querer) | 69 |
| cxx | Live Practically (Vivir á lo platico) | 69 |
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| cxxi | Do not make a Business of what is no Business (No hazar negocio del no negocio) | 70 |
| cxxii | Distinction in Speech and Action (Señorio en el dezir y en el hazar) | 71 |
| cxxiii | Avoid Affectation (Hombre desafectado) | 71 |
| cxxiv | Get Yourself missed (Llegar á ser deseados) | 72 |
| cxxv | Do not be a Black List (No ser libro verde) | 73 |
| cxxvi | Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in not hiding it when committed (No es necio el que haze la necedad, sino el que hecha no la sabe encubrir) | 73 |
| cxxvii | Grace in Everything (El despojo en todo) | 74 |
| cxxviii | Highmindedness (Alteza de animo) | 74 |
| cxxix | Never Complain (Nunca quexarse) | 75 |
| cxxx | Do and be seen Doing (Hazer y hazer parecer) | 76 |
| cxxxi | Nobility of Feeling (Galantería de condition) | 76 |
| cxxxii | Revise your Judgments (Usar del reconsejo) | 77 |
| cxxxiii | Better Mad with the rest of the World than Wise alone (Antes loco con todos que cuerdo á solas) | 77 |
| cxxxiv | Double your Resources (Doblar los requisitos de la vida) | 78 |
| cxxxv | Do not nourish the Spirit of Contradiction (No tenga espiritu de contradicion) | 79 |
| cxxxvi | Post Yourself in the Centre of Things (Ponerse bien en las materias) | 79 |
| cxxxvii | The Sage should be Self-sufficing (Bastase á sí mismo el sabio) | 80 |
| cxxxviii | The Art of letting Things alone (Arte de dexar estár) | 80 |
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| cxxxix | Recognise unlucky Days (Conocer el dia aziago) | 81 |
| cxl | Find the Good in a Thing at once (Hallar luego con lo buena en cada cosa) | 82 |
| cxli | Do not listen to Yourself (No escucharse) | 82 |
| cxlii | Never from Obstinacy take the Wrong Side because your Opponent has anticipated you in taking the Right One (Nunca por tema seguir el peor partido porque el contrario se adelantó y escogeó el mejor) | 83 |
| cxliii | Never become Paradoxical in order to avoid the Trite (No dár en paradoxo por huir de vulgar) | 84 |
| cxliv | Begin with Another's to end with your Own (Entrar con la agena para salir con la suya) | 85 |
| cxlv | Do not show your wounded Finger (No descubrir el dedo malo) | 85 |
| cxlvi | Look into the Interior of Things (Mirar por dentro) | 86 |
| cxlvii | Do not be Inaccessible (No ser inaccessible) | 86 |
| cxlviii | Have the Art of Conversation (Tener el arte de conversar) | 87 |
| cxlix | Know how to put off Ills on Others (Saber declinar á otro los males) | 88 |
| cl | Know how to get your Price for Things (Saber vender sus cosas) | 89 |
| cli | Think beforehand (Pensar anticipado) | 89 |
| clii | Never have a Companion who casts you in the Shade (Nunca acompañarse con quien que pueda deslucir) | 90 |
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| cliii | Beware of entering where there is a great Gap to be filled (Huya de entrar á llenar grandes vacios) | 91 |
| cliv | Do not Believe, or Like, lightly (No ser facil en creer ni en querer) | 91 |
| clv | The Art of getting into a Passion (Arte en el apassionarse) | 92 |
| clvi | Select your friends (Amigos de eleccion) | 93 |
| clvii | Do not make Mistakes about Character (No engañarse en las personas) | 94 |
| clviii | Make use of your Friends (Saber usar de los amigos) | 94 |
| clix | Put up with Fools (Saber sufrir necios) | 95 |
| clx | Be careful in Speaking (Hablar de atento) | 96 |
| clxi | Know your pet Faults (Conocer los defectos dulces) | 96 |
| clxii | How to triumph over Rivals and Detractors (Saber triunfar de la emulation y malevolencia) | 97 |
| clxiii | Never, from Sympathy with the unfortunate, involve Yourself in his Fate (Nunca por la compassion del infeliz se ha de incurrir en la desgracia del afortunado) | 97 |
| clxiv | Throw Straws in the Air (Echar al ayre algunas cosas) | 98 |
| clxv | Wage War Honourably (Hazer buena guerra) | 98 |
| clxvi | Distinguish the Man of Words from the Man of Deeds (Diferenciar el hombre de palabras del de obras) | 99 |
| clxvii | Know how to take your own Part (Saber se ayudar) | 100 |
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| clxviii | Do not indulge in the Eccentricities of Folly (No dár en monstruo de la necedad) | 100 |
| clxix | Be more careful not to Miss once than to Hit a hundred times (Atencion á no errar una mas que á acertar ciento) | 101 |
| clxx | In all Things keep Something in Reserve (Usar del retén en todas las cosas) | 101 |
| clxxi | Waste not Influence (No gastar el favor) | 102 |
| clxxii | Never contend with a Man who has nothing to Lose (No empeñarse con quien no tiene que perder) | 103 |
| clxxiii | Do not be Glass in Intercourse, still less in Friendship (No ser de vitrio en el trato y menos en la amistad) | 103 |
| clxxiv | Do not live in a Hurry (No vivir apriesa) | 104 |
| clxxv | A Solid Man (Hombre substancial) | 105 |
| clxxvi | Have Knowledge, or know those that have Knowledge (Saber o escuchar á quien sabe) | 106 |
| clxxvii | Avoid Familiarities in Intercourse (Escusar llanezas en el trato) | 106 |
| clxxviii | Trust your Heart (Creer al coraçon) | 107 |
| clxxix | Reticence is the Seal of Capacity (La retentiva es el sello de la capacidad) | 107 |
| clxxx | Never guide the Enemy to what he has to do (Nunca regirse por lo que el enemigo avia de hazer) | 108 |
| clxxxi | The Truth, but not the whole Truth (Sin mentir, no dezir todas las verdades) | 108 |
| clxxxii | A Grain of Boldness in Everything (Un grano de audacia con todo) | 109 |
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| clxxxiii | Do not hold your Views too firmly (No aprender fuertemente) | 110 |
| clxxxiv | Do not be Ceremonious (No ser ceremonial) | 110 |
| clxxxv | Never stake your Credit on a single Cast (Nunca exponer el credito á la prueba de sola una vez) | 111 |
| clxxxvi | Recognise Faults, however high placed (Conocer los defectos por mas autorizados que ester) | 111 |
| clxxxvii | Do pleasant Things Yourself, unpleasant things through Others (Todo lo favorable, obrarlo por sí, todo lo odioso, por terceros) | 112 |
| clxxxviii | Be the Bearer of Praise (Traer que alabar) | 113 |
| clxxxix | Utilise Another's Wants (Valerse de la privacion agena) | 114 |
| cxc | Find Consolation in all Things (Hallar el consuelo en todo) | 114 |
| cxci | Do not take Payment in Politeness (No pagarse de la mucha cortesia) | 114 |
| cxcii | Peaceful Life, a long Life (Hombre de gran paz hombre de mucha vida) | 115 |
| cxciii | Watch him that begins with Another's to end with his Own (Atencion al que entra con agena por salir á la suya) | 115 |
| cxciv | Have reasonable Views of Yourself and of your Affairs (Concebir de sí y de sus cosas cuerdamente) | 116 |
| cxcv | Know how to Appreciate (Saber estimar) | 117 |
| cxcvi | Know your ruling Star (Conocer su estrella) | 117 |
| cxcvii | Do not carry Fools on your Back (Nunca embaraçarse con los necios) | 118 |
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| cxcvii | Know how to transplant Yourself (Saberse transplantar) | 119 |
| cxcix | To find a proper Place by Merit, not by Presumption (Saberse hazer lugar á lo cuerdo, no á lo entremetido) | 120 |
| cc | Leave Something to wish for (Tener que desear) | 120 |
| cci | They are all Fools who seem so besides half the rest (Son tontos todos los que lo parecen y la mitad de los que no le parecen) | 121 |
| ccii | Words and Deeds make the Perfect Man (Dichos y hechos hazen un varon consumado) | 121 |
| cciii | Know the great Men of your Age (Conocer las eminencias de su siglo) | 122 |
| cciv | Attempt easy Tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy (Lo facil se ha de emprender como dificultoso y lo dificultoso como facil) | 122 |
| ccv | Know how to play the Card of Contempt (Saber jugar del desprechio) | 123 |
| ccvi | Know that there are vulgar Natures everywhere (Sepase que ay vulgo en todas partes) | 124 |
| ccvii | Be Moderate (Usar del reporte) | 124 |
| ccviii | Do not die of the Fools' Disease (No morir de achaque de necio) | 125 |
| ccix | Keep Yourself free from common Follies (Librarse de las comunes necedades) | 126 |
| ccx | Know how to play the Card of Truth (Saber jugar de la verdad) | 126 |
| ccxi | In Heaven all is bliss (En el cielo todo es contento) | 127 |
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| ccxii | Keep to Yourself the final Touches of your Art (Reservarse siempre las ultimas tretas del arte) | 128 |
| ccxiii | Know how to Contradict (Saber contradecir) | 128 |
| ccxiv | Do not turn one Blunder into two (No hazer de una necedad dos) | 129 |
| ccxv | Watch him that acts on Second Thoughts (Atencion al que llega de segunda intencion) | 129 |
| ccxvi | Be Expressive (Tener la declarativa) | 130 |
| ccxvii | Neither Love nor Hate for ever (No se ha de querer ni aborrecer para siempre) | 131 |
| ccxviii | Never act from Obstinacy but from Knowledge (Nunca obrar por tema sino por intencion) | 131 |
| ccxix | Do not pass for a Hypocrite (No ser tenido por hombre de artificio) | 132 |
| ccxx | If you cannot clothe yourself in Lionskin use Foxpelt (Quando no puede uno vestirse la piel del Leon, vestase la de la Vulpeja) | 133 |
| ccxxi | Do not seize Occasions to embarrass Yourself or Others (No ser ocasionado ni para empeñarse, ni para empeñar) | 133 |
| ccxxii | Reserve is proof of Prudence (Hombre detenido evidencia de prudente) | 134 |
| ccxxiii | Be not Eccentric (No ser muy individuado) | 134 |
| ccxxiv | Never take Things against the Grain (Saber tomar las cosas nunca al repelo) | 135 |
| ccxxv | Know your chief Fault (Conocer su defecto Rey) | 136 |
| ccxxvi | Take care to be Obliging (Atencion á obligar) | 136 |
| ccxxvii | Do not be the Slave of First Impressions (No ser de primera Impression) | 137 |
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| ccxxviii | Do not be a Scandalmonger (No tener voz de mala voz) | 137 |
| ccxxix | Plan out your Life wisely (Saber repartir su vida á lo discreto) | 138 |
| ccxxx | Open your Eyes betimes (Abrir los ojos con tiempo) | 139 |
| ccxxxi | Never let Things be seen half-finished (Nunca permitir á medio hazer las cosas) | 139 |
| ccxxxii | Have a Touch of the Trader (Tener un punto de negociante) | 140 |
| ccxxxiii | Let not the proffered Morsel be distasteful (No errarle el golpe al gusto) | 141 |
| ccxxxiv | Never trust your Honour to another, unless you have his in Pledge (Nunca fiar reputacion sin prendas de honra agena) | 141 |
| ccxxxv | Know how to Ask (Saber pedir) | 142 |
| ccxxxvi | Make an Obligation beforehand of what would have to be a Reward afterwards (Hazer obligation antes de lo que havia de ser premio despues) | 143 |
| ccxxxvii | Never share the Secrets of your Superiors (Nunca partir secretos con mayores) | 143 |
| ccxxxviii | Know what is wanting in Yourself (Conocer la pieza que falta) | 144 |
| ccxxxix | Do not be Captious (No ser reagudo) | 145 |
| ccxl | Make use of Folly (Saber usar de la necedad) | 145 |
| ccxli | Put up with Raillery, but do not practise it (Las burlas sufrirlas, pero no usarlas) | 146 |
| ccxlii | Push Advantages (Seguir los alcançes) | 146 |
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| ccxliii | Do not be too much of a Dove (No ser todo colombino) | 147 |
| ccxliv | Create a feeling of Obligation (Saber obligar) | 147 |
| ccxlv | Original and out-of-the-way Views (Discurrir tal vez á lo singular y fuera de lo comun) | 148 |
| ccxlvi | Never offer Satisfaction unless it is demanded (Nunca dár satisfacion á quien no la pedia) | 149 |
| ccxlvii | Know a little more, Live a little less (Saber un poco mas, y vivir un poco menos) | 149 |
| ccxlviii | Do not go with the last Speaker (No se le lleve el ultimo) | 150 |
| ccxlix | Never begin Life with what should end it (No començar á vivir por donde se ha de acabar) | 150 |
| ccl | When to change the Conversation (Quando se ha de discurrir a reves) | 151 |
| ccli | Use human Means as if there were no divine ones, and divine as if there were no human ones (Hanse de procurar los medios humanos como sino huviesse Divinos, y los Divinos como sino huviesse humanos) | 151 |
| cclii | Neither belong entirely to Yourself nor entirely to Others (Ni todo suyo ni todo ageno) | 151 |
| ccliii | Do not Explain overmuch (No allanarse sobrado en el concepto) | 152 |
| ccliv | Never despise an Evil, however small (No despreciar el mal por poco) | 153 |
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| cclv | Do Good a little at a time, but often (Saber hazer el bien poco y muchas vezes) | 154 |
| cclvi | Go armed against Discourtesy (Ir siempre prevenido contra los discorteses) | 154 |
| cclvii | Never let Matters come to a Rupture (Nunca llegar á rompimiento) | 155 |
| cclviii | Find out some one to share your Troubles (Buscar quien le ayude a llevar las infelicidades) | 156 |
| cclix | Anticipate Injuries and turn them into Favours (Prevenir las injurias y hazar dellas favores) | 156 |
| cclx | We belong to none and none to us entirely (Ni será ni tendrá á ninguno todo por suyo) | 157 |
| cclxi | Do not follow up a Folly (No proseguir la necedad) | 157 |
| cclxii | Be able to Forget (Saber olvidar) | 158 |
| cclxiii | Many Things of Taste one should not possess oneself (Muchas cosas de gusto no se han de poseer en propricdad) | 158 |
| cclxiv | Have no careless Days (No tenga dias de descuydo) | 159 |
| cclxv | Set those under you difficult Tasks (Saber empeñar los dependientes) | 159 |
| cclxvi | Do not become Bad from sheer Goodness (No ser malo de puro bueno) | 160 |
| cclxvii | Silken Words, Sugared Manners (Palabras de seda con suavidad de condition) | 161 |
| cclxviii | The Wise does at once what the Fool does at last (Haga al principio el cuerdo lo que el necio al fin) | 161 |
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| cclxix | Make use of the Novelty of your Position (Valgase de su novedad) | 162 |
| cclxx | Do not condemn alone that which pleases all (No condenar solo lo que á muchos agrada) | 162 |
| cclxxi | In every Occupation if you know little stick to the safest (El que supiere poco tengase siempre á lo mas seguro en toda profession) | 162 |
| cclxxii | Sell The Things the Tariff of Courtesy (Vender las cosas á precio de cortesia) | 163 |
| cclxxiii | Comprehend their Dispositions with whom you deal (Comprehension de los genios con quien trata) | 163 |
| cclxxiv | Be Attractive (Tener la atractiva) | 164 |
| cclxxv | Join in the Game as far as Decency permits (Corriente pero no indecente) | 164 |
| cclxxvi | Know how to renew your Character (Saber renovar el genio) | 165 |
| cclxxvii | Display Yourself (Hombre de ostentacion) | 166 |
| cclxxviii | Avoid Notoriety in all Things (Huir la nota en toda) | 166 |
| cclxxix | Do not contradict the Contradicter (No dezir al contradezir) | 168 |
| cclxxx | Be Trustworthy (Hombre de ley) | 168 |
| cclxxxi | Find Favour with Men of Sense (Gracia con los entendidos) | 169 |
| cclxxxii | Make use of Absence to make more esteemed or yourself valued (Usar de la ausencia á para el respecta, ó para la estimation) | 170 |
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| cclxxxiii | Have the Gift of Discovery (Hombre de Inventiva) | 170 |
| cclxxxiv | Do not be Importunate (No ser entremedido) | 171 |
| cclxxxv | Never die of another's Ill-luck (No perecer de desdicha agena) | 171 |
| cclxxxvi | Do not become responsible for all or for every one (No dexarse obligar del todo ni de todos) | 172 |
| cclxxxvii | Never act in a Passion (Nunca obrar apassionado) | 172 |
| cclxxxviii | Live for the Moment (Vivir á la ocasion) | 173 |
| cclxxxix | Nothing depreciates a Man more than to show he is a Man like other Men (El mayor desdoro de un hombre es dár muestras de que es hombre) | 173 |
| ccxc | ’Tis a piece of Good Fortune to combine Men's Love and Respect (Es felicidad juntar el aprecio con el afecta) | 174 |
| ccxci | Know how to Test (Saber hazer la tentativa) | 174 |
| ccxcii | Let your personal Qualities surpass those of your Office (Vença el natural las obligaciones del empleo) | 175 |
| ccxciii | Maturity (De la madurez) | 175 |
| ccxciv | Be moderate in your Views (Moderarse en el sentir) | 176 |
| ccxcv | Do not Affect what you have not effected (No hazañero sino hazañoso) | 176 |
| ccxcvi | Noble Qualities (Varon de prendas y magestuosas) | 177 |
| ccxcvii | Act always as if your Acts were seen (Obrar siempre como á vista) | 178 |
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| ccxcviii | Three Things go to a Prodigy (Tres cosas hazer un prodigio) | 178 |
| ccxcix | Leave off Hungry (Dexar con hambre) | 179 |
| ccc | In one word, be a Saint (En una palabra santo) | 179 |