Handorakel en kunst de voorzichtigheid (Dutch Language Edition)

Translated from inside flap: The Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián published in 1647 a Machiavellian manual for dealing with people. This cynical, achristelijke, intended only for the intellectual elite collection of practical precepts influenced over the centuries some of the most prominent Western European writers: La Rochfoucauld, Voltaire, Stendhal, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer (which appeared in 1862 a German translation of the Hand Oracle made). Maarten Salah in Netherlands: Hand Free Oracle is a book of which you do not want to leave and that the letter unread desire there still often in back. ' Galacián the Spaniard y Morales (1601-1658) was brought up by the Jesuits and resigned in 1619 itself in the order, among the less Jewish name Gracián. He wrote a novel and many essays in which he typically Jesuit way the objectives power and salvation reconciles.