Baltasar Gracian y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher, born on 8 January 1601 and died on 6 December 1658. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud in Aragon. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom of 1647, but his novel El Criticon, published from 1651 to 1657, is considered his greatest work.
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was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher
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8 January 1601
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6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish
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his novel El Criticón
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El Criticón is a Spanish novel by Baltasar Gracián.
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