The Pocket Oracle And Art Of Prudence

Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014144245X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence written by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over 350 years ago, The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence is a charming collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxims were created as a guide to life, with further suggestions given on cultivating good taste, knowing how to refuse, the foolishness of complaining and the wisdom of controlling one�s passions. Baltasar Gracian intended that these ingenious aphorisms would encourage each reader to challenge themselves both in understanding and applying each axiom.

Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Worldly Wisdom written by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Baltasar Gracián
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141966971
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence written by Baltasar Gracián and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over 350 years ago, The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence is a charming collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxims were created as a guide to life, with further suggestions given on cultivating good taste, knowing how to refuse, the foolishness of complaining and the wisdom of controlling one's passions. Baltasar Gracian intended that these ingenious aphorisms would encourage each reader to challenge themselves both in understanding and applying each axiom.

Author : Balthasar Gracian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (illustrated Edition) written by Balthasar Gracian and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Think with the few and speak with the many," "Friends are a second existence," and "Be able to forget" are among this volume's 300 thought-provoking maxims on politics, professional life, and personal development. Published in 1637, it was an instant success throughout Europe. The Jesuit author's timeless advice, focusing on honesty and kindness, remains ever popular. A perfect browsing book of mental and spiritual refreshment, it can be opened at random and appreciated either for a few moments or for an extended period.

Author : Baltasar Gracián
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141398280
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Use Your Enemies written by Baltasar Gracián and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracián shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658). Gracián's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence.

Author : Baltasar Gracian
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307788970
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pocket Mirror for Heroes written by Baltasar Gracian and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its republication in 1992 turned this lost classic into a New York Times bestseller. Now Gracian, the Spanish Jesuit considered Machiavelli's better in strategy and insight, sets a new standard on the art of living and the practice of achieving. That new standard is the art of heroism--how to be "the consummate person, ripe and perfect: accurate in judgment, mature in taste, attentive in listening, wise in sayings, shrewd in deeds, the center of all perfection." Gracian teaches the reader to be "a giant"--"the greatest person possible, a miracle of perfection, a king." Wit, wisdom, courage, elegance, grace, humility, spontaneity--these are the qualities needed to reach heroism in any occupation. But it is not enough to be wise or graceful: one must learn as well how to manage that talent, how to distinguish a quality fiom its shadow. A Pocket Mirror for Heroes provides "a politics for governing oneself, a compass for sailing toward excellence, an art for reaching distinction with just a few rules of discretion," and it will be wise and witty company for anyone who recognizes--and relishes--the challenges of daily life.

Author : Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Courtiers Manual Oracle written by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Baltasar Gracian
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0385421311
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Worldly Wisdom written by Baltasar Gracian and published by Currency. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dorothy Walker Stapleton
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2080301160
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elegant Entertaining written by Dorothy Walker Stapleton and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of Paris’s exclusive Faubourg St. Honoré neighborhood, the magnificent nineteenth-century residence of the American ambassador to France is the center of Franco-American relations and the site of elegant entertaining. Nearly every day of the year, master chef Philippe Excoffier prepares dazzling meals and parties for foreign dignitaries, French friends of America, and Americans in Paris. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Excoffier shares forty of his favorite recipes, including grilled veal with sage sauce and stuffed zucchini flowers, a new twist on French toast with roasted pineapple and rum raisin ice cream, and wild strawberries and cognac in dark chocolate baskets. Excoffier also reinvents American classics such as the Fourth of July picnic and Thanksgiving dinner. Specially commissioned photography sets the recipes against the backdrop of the residence’s splendid interiors. Partial proceeds of the book will be donated to FXB, a charity dedicated to fighting childhood poverty and AIDS.

Author : Baltasar Gracian
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307756971
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Worldly Wisdom written by Baltasar Gracian and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.