The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
Author: Baltasar Gracián and Jeremy Robbins Series: Penguin Classics
The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin Classics
A collection of 300 aphorisms. It encourages the readers to challenge themselves both in understanding and applying each axiom.
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The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin Classics
A collection of 300 aphorisms. It encourages the readers to challenge themselves both in understanding and applying each axiom.
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The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin ClassicsWritten 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.
About the Author
Baltasar Gracian was an aphorist, imaginary biographer, and novelist, who published studies of ideal figures and handbooks on the arts of rhetoric and comportment. His books include The Hero, Shrewdness and the Art of the Artist, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, and The Master Critic. Many high officials felt attacked by the controversial and critical works of this Jesuit priest-professor. Gracian refused to be censored, and was eventually confined to solitary house arrest, where he died.
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