Baltasar Gracián.
Jesuit priest born in 1601.
When I first read it, I thought, "It was interesting in a lot of toothless ways."
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "Europe has never produced a more exquisite and complex moral code of life," and Schopenhauer said, "It is a good guide to life.
The Wisdom of the Sages by Balthasar Gracián Introduction
You can see why Nietzsche and Schopenhauer would find it interesting.
In Japan, it's written as a "philosophy of success," but if I understand correctly, this person was eventually shunned and left.
I was having so much fun writing about things that I ended up writing unnecessary things.
I bought it on Amazon in May 2010.
Baltasar Gracián's Philosophy of Success
The Wisdom of the Sages by Balthasar Gracián
At the time, "If you read the book and made a Leverage memo, Throw away the original copy." Infected with memes, so there is no original copy left.
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