The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. It is a collection of 300 maxims, each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person, that became popular throughout Europe.
It was translated by Joseph Jacobs (London and New York City, Macmillan and co., 1892. Other editions are also available from:
- Nayika, 2009, ISBN 978-0-955-95831-1; edited with a light commentary/footnotes
- Shambhala Publications, 2004, ISBN 1-59030141-2
- Christopher Maurer (Doubleday) 1992
- Dover Publications, 2005, ISBN 0-48644034-6
- Google Books as a free digital edition via partnership with Princeton University Library
External links
- A page dedicated to The Art of Worldly Wisdom at Internet Sacred Text Archive
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Partial Translation of El Arte de Prudencia
- Complete Translation (from 1705) digitized on the website of the Hispanic digital library (National Library of Spain)
- Reflections about Aphorisms from The Art of Worldly Wisdom, blog by Ricardo del Pino.
