Name: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
ISBN: 9780486146775

Baltasar Gracián

Published in 1637 by a Spanish Jesuit scholar, this volume features 300 pithy maxims on politics, professional life, and personal development. Gracian's timeless advice, focusing on honesty and kindness, remains ever popular.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Baltasar Gracian

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

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.