The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle Hardcover - 1991 - 1st Edition
by Baltasar Gracian; Christopher Maurer (Translator)
"Use human means as though divine ones did not exist, and use divine means as though there were no human ones". So wrote the Jesuit scholar Baltazar Gracian some 300 years ago, in a book that will be compared to Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince. A new translation of long lost wisdom on living successfully yet responsibly.
First line
All has reached perfection, and becoming a true person is the greatest perfection of all.
From the jacket flap
The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
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- Title The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
- Author Baltasar Gracian; Christopher Maurer (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Currency, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1991-12-01
- ISBN 9780385421317 / 0385421311
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.54 x 5.27 x 0.79 in (19.15 x 13.39 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Maxims
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91040712
- Dewey Decimal Code 868.302
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Citations
- Library Journal, 01/01/1992, Page 0
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