A Pocket Mirror for Heroes: By the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Art of Worldly Wisdom - Hardcover

Gracian Y Morales, Baltasar; Maurer, Christopher; Gracian, Balthasar

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ISBN 10: 0385480210 ISBN 13: 9780385480215

Verlag: Doubleday, 1995

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Book by Baltasar Gracian

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The successor to the best-seller, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, offers another collection of aphorisms from the records of a seventeenth-century Jesuit, designed to inspire leaders to new heights. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

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et Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief.  And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire.  The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its republication in 1992 turned this lost classic into a New York Times  bestseller.  Now Gracian, the Spanish Jesuit considered Machiavelli's better in strategy and insight, sets a new standard on the art of living and the practice of achieving.  That new standard is the art of heroism--how to be "the consummate person, ripe and perfect: accurate in judgment, mature in taste, attentive in listening, wise in sayings, shrewd in deeds, the center of all perfection."

Gracian teaches the reader to be "

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385480210
• ISBN 13: 9780385480215
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 193