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THE ART

OF

WORLDLY WISDOM

BY

BALTHASAR GRACIAN

TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY

JOSEPH JACOBS

Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of History, Madrid

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

[1892]

Scanned, Proofed, and formatted at sacred-texts.com, June 2005, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published prior to 1923.

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    iii:1 Translation of the Goethe epigram, above:

    On the great scales of fortune,
    The balance rarely keeps still;
    You must rise or sink,
    You must rule and win
    Or serve and lose,
    Suffer or triumph,
    Be the anvil or the hammer.

    —JBH.

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