Baltasar Gracián Book order
January 8, 1601 – December 6, 1658
Baltasar Gracián was a Spanish Jesuit and prose writer of the Baroque period, renowned for his philosophical writings. His works, lauded for their depth and style, delve into proto-existentialist themes. Gracián stands as a foremost theorist and representative of the Spanish literary style known as Conceptismo, emphasizing wit and inventiveness. His writings offer timeless insights into human nature and the art of living.
- 2024
- 2023
- 2015
How to Use Your Enemies
- 56 pages
- 2 hours of reading
A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world.
- 1996
- 1991
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.
