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.

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, this book of timeless advice, focusing on honesty and kindness, remains ever popular.

This 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 concerns such as friendship, morality, managing emotions, and effective leadership. The Art of Worldly Wisdom is for anyone seeking to combine ethical behavior with worldly success.
This edition of The Art of Worldly Wisdom includes an informative introduction by Willis Barnstone,...

L' uvre de Baltasar Gracian est typique d'un style espagnol appele l'agudeza (l'acuite) caracterise par la concentration d'un maximum de signification dans des textes les plus courts possibles. L'utilisation de ce style dans Le heros permet de concentrer l' uvre en courts chapitres. Dans l'homme de cour et le heros, Baltasar Gracian se revele un grand specialiste de la casuistique (normal pour un jesuite) et du cynisme. Il ne conseille pas de mentir, mais de laisser a l'interlocuteur le soin de croire ce qui lui plaira le mieux. Il ne faut pas mentir, mais il ne faut pas dire toute la...