18 libros parecidos a Francisco de La Rochefoucauld

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Philosophy and living Olaf Stapledon · 1935 · ★ 3.4 Shares Philosophy with this book.

Way to wealth Benjamin Franklin · 1758 · ★ 4.5 · 28p · ≈ 56m · Challenging This is an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758. It is a collection of adages and advice presented in Poor Richard's Almanac during its first 25 years of publication, organized into a speech given by Father Abraham to a group of people. Many of the phrases Father Abraham quotes continue to be familiar today. The essay's advice is based on the themes of work ethic and frugality. This book is… Shares Maxims, Aphorisms and apothegms, Early works to 1800

Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymano Baltasar Gracián y Morales · 1649 · ★ 4.0 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A collection of maxims on wordly behavior observed by a Jesuit scholar 300 years ago. Shares Maxims, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

The Toy-Shop; a Dramatick Satire Robert Dodsley · 1700 · 41p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800 with this book.

Guesses at truth Augustus J. C. Hare · 1827 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares Aphorisms and apothegms, Philosophy

Essays Francis Bacon · 1618 · ★ 3.8 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "Bacon's Essays have attracted an eager readership since their publication in 1625. They sum up a lifetime's observations on the whole range of human activity, by one of the keenest minds of the Renaissance. In their third and final revision Bacon designed the Essays to fill some of the gaps he had diagnosed in the study of mankind, such as the formative influences on individual behaviour of… Shares Aphorisms and apothegms, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Prince Niccolò Machiavelli · 1998 · ★ 3.8 · 131p · ≈ 4h · Moderate "The Prince" is the most controversial book about winning power - and holding on to it - ever written. Machiavelli's tough-minded, pragmatic argument that sometimes it is necessary to abandon ethics to succeed made his name notorious. Yet his book has been read by strategists, politicians and business people ever since as the ultimate guide to realpolitik. How can a leader be strong and decisive,… Shares Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Philosopher's Joke

Philosopher's Joke Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1999 · 27p · ≈ 54m · Moderate Shares Philosophy with this book.

Gli eroici furori Giordano Bruno · 1887 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800, Philosophy with this book.

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Philosophy with this book.

The Bed of Procrustes

The Bed of Procrustes Nassim Nicholas Taleb · ★ 4.0 The author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditations—now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by… Shares Aphorisms and apothegms

The counter-scuffle

The counter-scuffle R. S. · 1626 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800 with this book.

Time Enough For Love Robert A. Heinlein · 1973 · 606p · ≈ 20h · Challenging The capstone and crowning achievement of  the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction...Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love… Shares Aphorisms and apothegms

Memorabilia Xenophon · 1650 · ★ 4.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800, Philosophy with this book.

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue Francis Hutcheson · 1725 · ★ 5.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to… Shares Early works to 1800, Philosophy

An account of the European settlements in America Edmund Burke · 1757 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares French, Early works to 1800 with this book.

De caelo Aristotle · 1545 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800, Philosophy with this book.

Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature John Bartlett · 1855 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Accurate • Modern • Reliable • Convenient ♦ THE FIRST AND ONLY HANDY POCKET EDITION OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS TREASURY OF QUOTATIONS "Everyone who puts words on paper for others to reod, everyone who ever speaks to an audience, even though it be an audience of three, needs 'Bartlett.'" THE SHORTER BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS is a compact new edition based on one of the most treasured… Shares Aphorisms and apothegms, Philosophy

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