特別注意不要濫用誇張的言辭，這樣才不會有違真理，也不會使人對你的判斷心存疑慮。誇大其辭是對判斷力的濫用，只會暴露出你知識和品味的欠缺。對事物的讚揚會引起人們對該事物的好奇，滋生欲望，但如果被讚美之物的價值與稱讚不匹配－一般情況都是這樣－之後人們就會感到被欺騙與愚弄，便會生出報復心理，對讚美者和被讚美者都不屑一顧。所以謹慎之人懂得慎言，與其言過其實，不如言之未逮。卓越非凡的事物十分少見，所以你不宜濫下褒辭。言過其實是一種謊話。不僅會讓別人覺得你沒有品味，而且更糟的是會失去人們對你的好感。
巴爾塔沙 葛拉西安
Never Exaggerate
It is an important object of attention notto talk in superlatives, so as neither to offend against truth nor to give amean idea of one’s understanding. Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgmentwhich shows the narrowness of one’s knowledge or one’s taste. Praise arouseslively curiosity, begets desire, and if afterwards the value does notcorrespond to the price, as generally happens, expectation revolts against thedeception, and revenges itself by under-estimating the thing recommended andthe person recommending. A prudent man goes more cautiously to work, andprefers to err by omission than by commission. Extraordinary things are rare,therefore moderate ordinary valuation. Exaggeration is a branch of lying, andyou lose by it the credit of good taste, which is much, and of good sense,which is more.
Baltasar Gracian
In superlatives 誇張地 言過其實地 過火的
Prodigality 浪費揮霍
Beget 招致產生 引起
Deception 欺騙詭計
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