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The courtier's oracle, or, The art of prudence, 1694 translation.. The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. [1]
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El Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia (1647), a collection of three hundred aphorisms offering practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. Translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Joseph Jacobs (1892) and Christopher Maurer (1992) and as The Wisdom of Baltasar Gracián by J. Leonard Kaye (1992).
Near the Menestheus's port or Menesthei Portus (Greek: Μενεσθέως λιμήν), modern El Puerto de Santa María, Spain, was the Oracle of Menestheus (Greek: Μαντεῖον τοῦ Μενεσθέως), to whom also the inhabitants of Gades offered sacrifices. [16] [17]
Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia (1835/1845), as imagined by Eugène Delacroix.. Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi.
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