{"id":2050,"date":"2025-11-16T22:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2025-11-16T22:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T22:14:50","slug":"the-art-of-worldly-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/the-art-of-worldly-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my trip to Nanog95<\/a>, I managed to visit Houston Nasa Center<\/a> and this bookshop<\/a>. I wanted to buy the latest book from the owner but I couldn’t and by chance I found a book<\/a> from Baltasar Gracian<\/a>. It was funny because I wanted to read that book after reading the 48 laws power. So I bought it and after a short walk in the town, I got back to my drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I liked the intro and the bit of history of Baltasar and how important the book was for some prime philosophers like Nietzsche<\/a> and Schopenhauer<\/a> (who translated to German!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the most repeated words in the book are prudence and wisdom. There are 300 short entries, and most of them are worth commenting about but I will some main ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33: “Know when to put something aside” = learn to say no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

51: “Know how to choose”. This is from XVII, so 400y ago they new about the problem about having options. I think this is one of the main issues we have nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

90: “The art of living ling: live well. The strength of the mind is communicated to the body. A good life is long both in intention and extension”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

103: “To each, the dignity that befits him. Not everyone is a king, but your deeds should be worthy of one”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

104: “Have a good sense of what each job required: … Far better are the jobs we dont grow bored with, where variety combines with importance and refreshes our taste”. And you think boredom or burnout is only recent…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

105: “… Good things, if brief: twice good. Brevity is pleasant and flattering, and it gets more done”. This is one I use more often, and my favourite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

125: “.. The prudent person doesn’t register the defects of others or become a vile, living blacklist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

130: “… To excel and to know how to show it is to excel twice”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

137: “… Be that friend to yourself and you will be able to live by yourself”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

251: “Use human means as though divine ones didn’t exist, and divine means as though there were no human ones.” This is from Saint Ignatius of Loyola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

262: “Know how to forget: It takes more luck than skill”: Amen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

295: “Not a braggart, but a doer: … Content yourself with doings: leave saying to others”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

297: “Always behave as though others were watching”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

299: “Leave people hungry. The good, if little, is twice good” similar to 105.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

300: Be a saint. Virtue<\/strong> is chain of all perfections…. She makes you prudent<\/strong>, discreet, shrewd,….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another of my favourite sentences is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cQuien te alaba con lo que non es en ti, sabe que quiere levar lo que as de ti.<\/a>
–\u00a0https:\/\/akifrases.com\/frase\/175729<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I need to read about Don Manuel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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