1992, ISBN: e8b1bf72669d6aa9bd0b1a71f056565b

Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: NY etc~. January 1992. Doubleday/ A Currency Book.], Jacket, small black ½ clothhardbound 8vo. 8º dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine c… More...

Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: NY etc~. January 1992. Doubleday/ A Currency Book.], Jacket, small black ½ clothhardbound 8vo. 8º dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond., not worn or torn or price clipped . nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. 8th printing ( # 8 in # line). decorative frontis. 7 title pg. xx+182p. list of aphorisms. footnotes throughout. 15 page introduction with endnotes by Maurer. philosophy. world history. biography. politics. psychology. ~ "Use human means as though divine ones did not exist, and use divine means as though there were no human ones;" ~ Baltasar Gracian. Throughout the centuries, mankind has produced three great, timeless wisdom books: Machiavelli's The Prince, Sun~Tzu's The Art of vvar, and Baltasar Gracians The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle. And yet, until now, Gracian's astonishing classic has been largely unavailable to modem readers. The Art of Worldly Wisdom was written three hundred years ago by one of Spain's greatest writers~a worldly Jesuit scholar and keen observer of many in positions of power. Gracians work draws on careful study of statesmen and potentates who managed to combine ethical behavior with worldly effectiveness. Each of the elegantly crafted maxims in this volume offers valuable insight on the art of living and the practice of achieving. According to novelist Gail Godwin, "The oracle scintillates with Machiavellian know~how, only with scruples . The reader today who faithfully follows its precepts will never make a fool of himself or herself and may even go on to become useful and wise." Newly translated, Gracian's advice is as astonishingly appropriate today as it was in seventeenth~century Spain, a society resembling our own in its contiguous splendor and abject misery. These secular moral reflections on reality and appearances, self~love and friendship, wit and ignorance are sharply pragmatic, but still leave room for spirituality, tempered by prudence and discretion.<

1992, ISBN: e8b1bf72669d6aa9bd0b1a71f056565b

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1992, ISBN: e8b1bf72669d6aa9bd0b1a71f056565b

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ISBN: e8b1bf72669d6aa9bd0b1a71f056565b

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