EPITOME - Episode 13 - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The most popular work of Baltasar Gracián, a Spanish Jesuit and writer who lived from 1601 to 1658, is the Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia, which translates literally as Oracle Handbook and Art of Prudence, a collection of 300 sayings with commentary, written in 1647. The first four passages of this classic work are adapted from the 1892 translation by Joseph Jacobs, which he titles The Art of Worldly Wisdom.