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The Art of Worldly Wisdom

By: Balthasar Gracian
Narrated by: Keira Grace
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom was written in 1647. It is a collection of 300 maxims on various topics, each elaborated with a commentary. The sayings offer advice and guidance on how to live well, advance socially, and be a better person.

Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks Ethics Ethics & Morality Personal Development Personal Success Philosophy Religious Studies World Thought-Provoking
Valuable Wisdom • Thought-provoking Content • Enjoyable Read • Solid Information
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Read this book. Listen to it slowly. This book jogged my thinking so many times that I lost count.

Very good book

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If I would have a book that can stand with The 48 Laws of Power, this is the book.

Great read

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It’s strange as it seems the writer took all his time to figure out how to live but never spent his time actually living it to write the book. It’s wisdom if the information is applied, if not it’s just knowledge.

Dry info but solid. It’s like really good health food that you can only tolerate in small portions.

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While the narrator did read the book quite quick, it was definitely an enjoyable read. To get the most out of this audiobook, slow down the reading speed to x0.95 speed.

Fast but Enjoyable

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The narrator sounded like a person who doesn’t understand the language. No inflection and very robotic.

Terrible Narration

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If you were to have but one book for a lifetime of wisdom. This is.

Absolutely Epic

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This book is actually best as a read. To make matters worse, the narrator is rushing the content, as if she's in a race to get it finished and over with, which is pretty maddening for this particular content. I slowed the speed down to 0.80 which relaxed the delivery somewhat. Do yourself a favor and get the print copy and read each axiom as you would a daily meditation ... in that sense, each verse is like an oracle reading for the day.

A personal fave ... however ...

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I have read the pocket work and art of prudence and have been waiting awhile for this audiobook, If you have read this book or the art of worldly wisdom you can skip the first six chapters out right. The narrator sounds like Siri’s gland humorless cousin. She speaks too fast as if she doesn’t care about the content so you’ll need to slow it down in order to enjoy the book because the information provided in this book solid on any given day.

Needs improvements

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great maxims. really dry and hard to listen to voice over. inspired by the wisdom

better than Machiavelli and the prince

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The content is good but the narrator is reading TOO FAST! I had to slow it down listen properly

Narrator is Rushing!

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