by Baltasar Gracián · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484600114
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«El arte de la prudencia» (Oráculo manual) is a manual of philosophical aphorisms by Baltasar Gracián, in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together three hundred commented aphorisms that condense Baltasar Gracián's practical wisdom for getting by in a competitive and hostile society. The author presents prudence as an art oriented to practical life and human relations; hence the original subtitle, Oráculo manual.
Edition prepared by José Ignacio Díez Fernández and published in 2000; the cover bears the badge of more than 40,000 copies sold.
It will appeal to readers of practical philosophy, classical literature and personal development; the work influenced authors such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work.
