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Lulu.com The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian
Baroque philosopher Balthasar Gracians The Art of Worldly Wisdom consists of three hundred maxims spanning a wide range of topics relating to all aspects of life and human behavior. Gracian was a Spanish Jesuit Priest whose sermons and writings were disapproved of by his superiors. Admired by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche for the depth and subtlety of his observations Gracians collection of pithy insights deserves place alongside similar classic manuals of selfimprovement from antiquity like the Enchiridion of Epictetus and Senecas Letters.show more