Battles on satin sheets. Holiness, eros and flesh in China.

Baltasar Gracian is the greatest Spanish moral philosopher and writer of the XVII century. He renewed the very spirit of Spanish literature and created manuals for all occasions. Gracian's writings were forgotten for a long time, until Schopenhauer and Nietzsche rediscovered the philosopher to the reading public. The Pocket Oracle is the science of self-attention, the science that turns life into a novel. Reading the "Pocket Oracle" not only helps to understand the paradoxes and oddities of mental life, including modern man, but also to unravel the mysteries of the Spanish Baroque culture.

"Thoughts" is the unfinished work of the great French scientist and philosopher of the XVII century, Blaise Pascal. This work, despite its fragmentary nature, belongs to the highest achievements of the human spirit. It contains the deepest and at the same time the most poignant reflections on God and human nature, on the purpose of life and the meaning of death.