The Art Of Worldly Wisdom (Pocket)
avBaltasar Gracian Y Morales, Joseph Jacobs, Baltasar Gracian
ISBN: 9780486440347 - UTGIVEN: 200504"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 pithy maxims on politics, professional life, and personal development. Published in 1637 by Baltasar Gracian, a Spanish Jesuit scholar, it was an instant success throug[...]
How to Use Your Enemies (Häftad)
avBaltasar Gracian
ISBN: 9780141398273 - UTGIVEN: 2015-02'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone.' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian 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[...]
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Inbunden)
avBaltasar Gracian y. Morales
ISBN: 9780385421317 - UTGIVEN: 199112The 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.[...]
The Pocket Mirror of Heroes (Häftad)
avChristopher Maurer, Baltasar Gracian
ISBN: 9780385503143 - UTGIVEN: 200101
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Pocket)
avBaltasar Gracian, Steven (EDT) Schroeder, Martin (TRN) Fischer
ISBN: 9780760791066 - UTGIVEN: 2008-01Baltasar Gracian's "Art of Worldly Wisdom" offers practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. The three hundred aphorisms contained here, first published as "Oraculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia" in 1647, remain remarkably relevant today. The political and soc[...]
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Häftad)
avBaltasar Gracian y. Morales
ISBN: 9781570627453 - UTGIVEN: 200010This perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one's way in the world. Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, these teachings are strikingly modern in tone and address universal c[...]
