A centuries-old rediscovered masterpiece of 300 adages on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest, as astonishingly appropriate today as it was in seventeenth-century Spain"The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a book of strategies for knowing, judging, and acting: for making one's way in the world and achieving distinction and perfection.
A centuries-old rediscovered masterpiece of 300 adages on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest, as astonishingly appropriate today as it was in seventeenth-century Spain"The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a book of strategies for knowing, judging, and acting: for making one's way in the world and achieving distinction and perfection.