Baltasar Gracián
Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)
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Spanish Jesuit who wrote The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), a survival guide for navigating court politics that later had Schopenhauer and Nietzsche fawning over it. His novel El Criticón is the one critics actually call his masterpiece.
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Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work.
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