Author: Baltasar Gracian
Publisher: Hermes/Srishti
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 132
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
This is a book of strategies for knowing, judging, choosing and acting for achieving personal, professional and social (worldly) success. It’s a book for everyone but especially for the young people
This is a book of strategies for knowing, judging, choosing and acting for achieving personal, professional and social (worldly) success. It’s a book for everyone but especially for the young people. It gives at once and beforehand that teaching which one can otherwise only obtain through long experience.
Originally written in 1637 by a Spanish Jesuit, scholar, ‘The Art of Worldly Wisdom’ was soon translated from Spanish into eight major European languages including German.
REVIEWS:
The manner in which one single precious hint will clarify and guide the life of a man who receives it is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
—Arnold Bennett
Reach Perfection. No one is born that way. Perfect yourself daily both personally and professionally until you become a consummate being rounding of your gifts and reaching eminence.
Know how to use your enemies. Grasp things not by the blades which will harm you but by the hilt which will defend you.
Undertake the easy as though it were difficult and the difficult as though it were easy, so as not to grow overconfident and discouraged.
Contents
Introduction
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Maxims