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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	see_v	soul_n	2,772	5	5.0753	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41733	The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence written originally in Spanish by Baltazar Gracian, and now done into English.; Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia. English	Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1468; ESTC R6724	108,245	306

it is used towards an Enemy We are not onely to overcome by force but also by the manner To Conquer basely is not to overcome but to be Conquered rather Generosity hath always had the advantage A worthy man never makes use of forbidden Weapons To employ the wrack of an old Friendship in framing a new hatred is to use such arms For it is not lawfull to take the advantage of a trust and confidence in revenge Whatever looks like treachery infects the good name The least atome of baseness is inconsistent with the generosity of great Souls A brave man ought to make it his glory to be such that if gallantry generosity and fidelity were lost in the world they might be found in his heart MAXIME CLXVI To distinguish betwixt the man of Words and the man of Deeds This distinction is as absolutely necessary as that of the friend of the person and the friend of the employment For they are very different friends He is out of the way who doing no bad Deeds gives no good Words And he again more who giving no bad Words does no good Deeds Now a-days men feed not upon words seeing they are but wind nor do they live on Civilities these being onely a formal juggle To go a birding with a light is the true way to dazle the birds eyes The vain and fools are content with wind Words ought to be the pledges of actions and by consequent have their value Trees that bear no fruit and have onely leaves have commonly no heart It is necessary to know them all the one to make profit of them and the other to stand under their shade MAXIME CLXVII To be able to help ones self In troublesome encounters there is no better company than a great heart and if this come to fail it ought to be assisted by the parts that are about it Crosses are not so great for those who can tell how to assist themselves Yield not to Fortune For she 'll become insupportable to thee Some give themselves so little help in their troubles that they increase them because they know not how to bear them with courage He that understands himself well finds in reslexion relief to his weakness A man of judgment comes off in all things advantageously were it even to come down from the stars MAXIME CLXVIII Not to be Monstrous All the Hair-brained Vain Opinionative Capricious Self-conceited Extravagant Fawners Buffoons News-mongers Authours of Paradoxes Phanaticks and in a word all sorts of irregular persons all these I say are so many Monsters of impertinence The ugliness of the Soul is always more monstrous than the deformity of body seeing it more dishonours the beauty of its original But who shall correct so great and general a disorder where reason is wanting direction has nothing to doe inasmuch as that which ought to be the cause of a serious reflexion upon that which gives occasion to publick laughter makes men fall into the vanity of believing they are admired MAXIME CLXIX To take more heed not to miss once than to hit an hundred times When the Sun shines no body minds him but when he is eclipsed all consider him The vulgar will keep no account of your hits but of your misses The bad are more known by murmurings than the good by applauses and many have not been known untill they fell All good successes put together are not enough to obliterate one bad one Undeceive thy self then and take it for a certain truth that Envy will observe all thy faults but not one of thy good actions MAXIME CLXX To be sparing in all things That 's the way to succeed in matters of importance One must not at every turn employ all his Capacity nor shew all his strength One must be sparing even in knowledge for that serves to double the value of it There is a necessity of having always something to trust to when the question is how to get out of the mire The relief is more considerable than the fight because it is always accompanied with the reputation of valour Prudence keeps always to the surer side And in that sense the ingenious Paradox is true That the half is more than the whole MAXIME CLXXI. Not to abuse Favour Great Friends are for great occasions Much favour is not to be employed in matters of small importance that 's scattering of it The sheet Anchor is always reserved for the last extremity If we squander away the much for the little what will remain for the next need There is nothing now a-days better than Protectours nor more precious than favour It does and undoes even so far as to give wit and take it Fortune hath always been as much a Step-mother to the Wise as Nature and Fame have been favourable unto them It 's better to know how to preserve our Friends than our Estates MAXIME CLXXII Never to engage with him that hath nothing to lose To doe otherwise is to fight at a disadvantage For the other enters the lists unconcernedly Seeing he hath lost all shame he hath no more to lose nor to husband and so he runs hand over head into all extravagances Reputation which is an inestimable value ought never to be exposed to so great risques Having cost a great many years in purchasing it comes to be lost in a moment A small breeze of wind is enough to freeze a great deal of sweat A Prudent Man is withheld by the consideration that he hath much to lose When he thinks of his Reputation he presently considers the danger of losing it And by means of that reflexion he proceeds with so great reserve that Prudence has time to retire in time and to secure his Credit One can never be able to recover by a Victory what he hath already lost in exposing himself to lose MAXIME CLXXIII Not to be a Glass in Conversation and much less in Friendship Some are easie to break and thereby discover their insolidity They fill themselves with discontent and others with distate They shew themselves to be tenderer than the Eyes because they are not to be touched neither in jest nor earnest Motes even offend them for they have no need of Apparitions They who keep them company ought to put an extreme constraint upon themselves and study to observe all their nicities There is no stirring before them for the least gesture disturbs them Commonly they are a self-abounding kind of people slaves to their humour and Idolatours of their silly point of honour for which they would turn the world topsie-turvey He that truly loves is of the nature of a Diamond both as to its lastingness and its being hard to break MAXIME CLXXIV Not to live too fast To know how to distribute time is to know how to enjoy life To many there is much of life remaining but they want the felicity of it They lavish away pleasures for they enjoy them not and when they are gone on a great way they

what there may be also Reason having been undeceived by so many experiences ought to undeceive it In a word it neither becomes ignorance to be bold nor capacity to be bashfull And if Confidence be usefull to them who have but a small stock upon stronger reason it ought to be usefull to those who have a great deal MAXIME CLXXXIII Not to be Head-strong All Fools are Opiniatours and all Opiniatours are Fools The more Erroneous their Opinions are the more they hug them It is civil to yield even in those things wherein we have greatest reason and certainty for then all know who had reason on their side and besides the reason Gallantry is also discovered in the procedure There is more esteem lost by a wilfull resistence then there is got by carrying it by open force For that is not so much a defending of truth as a demonstration of Clownishness There are knotty heads very difficult to be cleft and which always run upon some incurable extremity and when once whimsey joins to their head-strongness they contract an indissoluble league with extravagance Inflexibility ought to be in the will and not in the judgment though there be excepted cases too wherein one is not to suffer himself to be gained nor doubly overcome that 's to say both in the reason and in the execution MAXIME CLXXXIV Not to be Ceremonious The affectation of being so was heretofore censured as a piece of vitious singularity and that in a King too Punctiliousness is tiresome There are whole Nations sick of that Nicety The robe of silliness is wrought with small stitch These Idolatours of the point of honour give a demonstration that their honour is founded on a small matter seeing they fansie every thing may wound it It is good so to carry as to gain Respect but it is ridiculous to pass for a great Master of Compliments It is very true that a Man without Ceremony hath need of a great Merit in place of it Courtesie ought neither to be affected nor slighted He shall never gain the esteem of an able man who sticks too much upon Formalities MAXIME CLXXXV Never to expose ones Credit to the risque of one single interview For if one come not well of it is an irreparable loss To fail once happens often and especially the first time One is not always in the kue whence cometh the Proverb It is not my day One must therefore endeavour that if he hath failed the first time the second may make amends for all or that the first may vouch for the second that succeeded not One ought always to have his recourse to better and to appeal from much to more Affairs depend on certain fortuitous cases and on many too and by consequence good success is a rare good fortune MAXIME CLXXXVI To discern faults though they be in fashion Though Vice be cloathed in cloth of gold yet a good man will still know it It is to no purpose for it to be apparelled in gold it can never so well disguise it self but that it will be perceived to be of iron It would cloak it self with the nobility of its Adherents but it is never stript of its baseness nor the misery of its slavery Vices may very well be exalted but not exalt Some observe that such a Heroe hath had such a Vice but they consider not that it was not that Vice which made him a Heroe The example of great men is so good an Oratour that it persuades one to infamous matters Sometimes flattery hath affected even bodily defects without observing that though they be born with in great men they are insupportable in the mean MAXIME CLXXXVII To act all that is agreeable to ones self and all that 's odious by others The one conciliates good will and the other banishes hatred There is more pleasure in doing good than in receiving it It 's in that that generous Souls place their felicity It seldome happens that one vexes another without being troubled himself either through compassion or retaliation Superiour causes never operate without reaping praise or reward Let the good come immediately from thee and the evil by another Take some body upon whom the blows of discontent may fall that 's to say the hatred and the murmurings The anger of the Rabble is like that of Dogs not knowing the cause of its evil it falls upon the Instrument So that the instrument bears the punishment of the evil whereof it is not the principal cause MAXIME CLXXXVIII To bring always into company something to be praised That 's a means to make one esteemed a man of good discerning and upon whose judgment one may be assured of the goodness of things He that hath known the perfection before will be sure to esteem it afterwards He furnishes matter to conversation and imitation by unfolding plausible knowledges It is a politick way of selling Courtesie to those that are present who have the same perfections Others on the contrary bring always with them something to be blamed and flatter the present by despising the absent This succeeds with them when they are in the company of those who onely look on the outside seeing such observe not the cunning of speaking ill of some in presence of others Some think it a piece of Policy to esteem more the ordinary perfections of to day than the wonders of yesterday A Prudent Man then is to have a care of all these Artifices whereby these blades endeavour to attain to their ends that he may not be discouraged by the exaggeration of the one nor puffed up by the flattery of the others Let him know that both proceed the same way with both parties and onely give them the alternative by adjusting their sentiments to the place where they are MAXIME CLXXXIX To make use of the needs of others If privation come the length of desire it is the most efficacious constraint Philosophers have said that privation was nothing and the Politicians say that it 's all in all And without doubt these have best understood it There are some who to obtain their ends make their way by the desire of others They lay hold of occasion and stir up the desire by the difficulty of obtaining They promise themselves more from the heat of passion than from the lukewarmness of possession Insomuch that the desire enflames the more as the resistence grows greater The true secret of attaining to ones ends is to keep people always in dependence MAXIME CXC To be satisfied in all conditions Even they who are useless have the consolation that they are eternal There is no trouble but hath its satisfaction Luck for the fools and chance for the ugly saith the Proverb To live long there needs no more but to be of little worth The crackt pot seldom breaks it lasts commonly till people be weary of using it It would seem that fortune envies men of importance seeing it joins duration with incapacity in some and