18 books like 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

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Self-help Samuel Smiles · 1800 · ★ 3.8 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Self-Improvement, Conduct of life, Early works to 1800, Philosophy with this book.

The human machine Arnold Bennett · 1908 · 123p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Considering that we have to spend the whole of our lives in this human machine, considering that it is our sole means of contact and compromise with the rest of the world, we really do devote to it very little attention. When I say 'we,' I mean our inmost spirits, the instinctive part, the mystery within that exists. And when I say 'the human machine' I mean the brain and the body - and chiefly… Shares Self-Improvement, Conduct of life, Early works to 1800, Nonfiction

Let Your Past Go and Live Avril Carruthers · 2008 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A fresh, accessible and contemporary take on the psychological flaws that trip us up.In Let Your Past Go and Live, therapist Avril Carruthers tackles the many characters we play to survive our families, workplace and relationship challenges, from the 'victim' who only feels good when they're rescuing people, the bullies who get off on monstering others, to the women who just can't resist bad… Shares Self-Improvement, Nonfiction

How to Balance Your Life James O'Loghlin · 2009 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A step-by-step, very practical guide to getting a bit of work/life balance into your own life.Picture this: you're sitting ina traffic jam. You left work late, because you had so much on, and now you're late to pick up the kids from school. And when you get home there's still so much to do: homework, washing, shopping, cooking, cleaning. And the next day you have to get up and do it all over… Shares Self-Improvement, Nonfiction

Sir John Cockle at Court. Being the sequel of the King and the Miller of Mansfield. A dramatick tale Robert Dodsley · 1738 · 24p · ≈ 48m · Challenging Shares Courts and courtiers, Early works to 1800 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 Aesthetics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

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, Quotations, Conduct of life, Early works to 1800

What I Know For Sure

What I Know For Sure Oprah Winfrey · 2014 · ★ 4.5 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in history),… Shares Quotations, Conduct of life, Philosophy

Imaginary portraits Walter Pater · 1887 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Walter Pater is best known for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and for his first novel Marius the Epicurean (1885). His short fiction deserves a much wider audience. This edition includes the four intricate and influential narratives he published as Imaginary Portraits in 1887 together with five of his other portraits, published only in periodical form. Fully annotated and… Shares Courts and courtiers, Aesthetics, Philosophy

Don Quijote de la Mancha Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1600 · ★ 3.9 · 506p · ≈ 16h · Challenging *Don Quijote de la Mancha* es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Publicada su primera parte con el título de *El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha* a comienzos de 1605, es la obra más destacada de la literatura española y una de las principales de la literatura universal. En 1615 apareció su continuación con el título de *Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero… Shares Quotations, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Maximes François duc de La Rochefoucauld · 1694 · ★ 5.0 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "The translation of this bilingual edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (long known in English simply as the Maxims) is the first to appear in forty years. It is completely new and aims - unlike all previous versions - at being as literal as possible. This involves, among other things, rendering the same word - for example, amour-propre as "self-love" - as… Shares Maxims, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

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

Wisdom and destiny Maurice Maeterlinck · 1898 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Wisdom, Nonfiction with this book.

Herders sämmtliche Werke Johann Gottfried Herder · 1877 · ★ 5.0 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Aesthetics, Philosophy with this book.

The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook Steve Doocy · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Ever since Eve asked Adam, "Do I look fat in this fig leaf?" it has been apparent that husbands don't know how to relate to their wives. Men believe they understand women and vice versa, but really men know as much about women as a cocker spaniel knows about assembling a Weber grill.Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook, Steve Doocy's laugh-out-loud perspective on love, marriage, and family.… Shares Self-Improvement, Nonfiction

Feeling is the Secret Neville Goddard · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Light Your thoughts shape your life, create your reality, and ultimately limit or expand your true potential. This book describes how our thoughts and feelings affect who we become and what we achieve. When we have the power to change them, we gain the power to change our circumstances, our health, and our life's purpose. "The world, and all within it, is man's conditioned consciousness objectified.… Shares Philosophy, Nonfiction

Biographia literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1817 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known… Shares Aesthetics, Philosophy, Literature, Nonfiction

The Art of War 孙武 (Sun Tzu) · 1900 · ★ 3.9 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Moderate The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period. The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu Shares Self-Improvement, Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Nonfiction

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