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Painted portraitAnonymous artist; restored reproduction · Public domain

Baltasar Gracián

Spanish Jesuit writer whose compact reflections explore prudence, character and social power. Read the complete heading and argument in the historical Jacobs translation.

1601 AD – 1658 AD · 312 collected ↗