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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