A pocket oracle. Gracian Balthazar

Baltasar Gracian is the greatest Spanish moral philosopher and writer of the 17th century, who renewed the very spirit of Spanish literature and created guides 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.