Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies, trans. Jeremy Robbins, a short collection of excerpts from The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence (1647).
Alas, Gracián describes reading as a element only in “the first part” of life. Then we see the world and, finally, philosophize by ourselves. But I like this sentence removed from its context. I think of becoming a person as a lifelong effort — never done.
This volume is no. 12 in the Penguin Little Black Classics series (2015).
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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