The Art of Worldly Wisdom

This book is a collection of maxims. Originally published as "Oráculo Manual y Arte de Drudencia" in 1637. The book is a collection of 300 paragraphs on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person. This book offers an ideal of life at once refined and practical, cultured yet wisely energetic. Gracian points to noble aims, and proposes, on the whole, no ignoble means of attaining to them. The Spanish Jesuit sees clear, but he looks upward.