The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Balthasar Gracian

Available in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook. This book has 121 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1647: this translation by Joseph Jacobs, 1892.

Description

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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