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Knowledge without wisdom is doubly folly. What a misfortune it is for our age that it should look upon virtue as peculiar and vice as normal.
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To be different from others merely serves to brand oneself with a special mark of folly which excites, in turn, derision in some people and annoyance in others. We're not much for self-help manuals and the like, and ultimately that is what this is. Still, it's nicely presented and expressed, and it is amusing to see how little the world changes.
Certainly, we can think of any number of people politicians, in particular who could benefit from a good dose of this stuff. And it can't do much harm. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
Hand-Orakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit - Deutschland. One of its fundamental characteristics is the dense network of references condensed in each of his words.
But they reflect most of all an abundant number of very real lectures, an eager desire for information and communication, and a notable — and so very Jesuit — capacity for being au courant of the events and changes of the age. And, on top of all that, he speaks to us in a very high standard of prose, capable of the most refined agudeza, where the will towards style defines also a complex moral attitude. These texts can be regarded the keystone of Spanish Baroque literature, and perhaps this is why they possess, as Aurora Egido says, "a constant exercise of what is today called intertextuality, both thematic, conceptual and stylistic, very much in harmony with the practices inherited from the age of Humanism".
In its final reading an undoubtedly disillusioned and pessimistic Humanism, but nevertheless not one that disdains the values of the words of literature and the power of the language.
We offer three editions of each work: Furthermore, we also publish all the translations — although in many cases it would be more appropriate to speak about paraphrases — available in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Projected date of publication, July Joseph de Courbeville Paris English: Courbeville Dublin Italian: What a misfortune it is for our age that it should look upon virtue as peculiar and vice as normal. To be different from others merely serves to brand oneself with a special mark of folly which excites, in turn, derision in some people and annoyance in others.
We're not much for self-help manuals and the like, and ultimately that is what this is.
Still, it's nicely presented and expressed, and it is amusing to see how little the world changes. Certainly, we can think of any number of people politicians, in particular who could benefit from a good dose of this stuff. And it can't do much harm. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
Hand-Orakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit - Deutschland. L'art de la prudence - France.