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Read this book to become literally an UBERMENSCH!

It is short and contains all the wisdom of all all philosophers of the last 2500 years. The book was written around 1650.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian

http://www.andrewburke.me/media/Gracian.pdf

Create a Feeling of Dependence.

Not he that

adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. The

wise man would rather see men needing him than

thanking him. To keep them on the threshold of

hope is diplomatic, to trust to their gratitude

boorish; hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad

one. More is to be got from dependence than

from courtesy. He that has satisfied his thirst

turns his back on the well, and the orange once

sucked falls from the golden platter into the

waste

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basket. When dependence disappears,

good behaviour goes with it as well as respect.

Let it be one of the chief lessons of experience to

keep hope alive without entirely satisfying it, by

preserving it to make oneself always needed even

by a patron on the throne. But let not silence be

carried to excess lest you go wrong, nor let

another's failing grow incurable for the sake of

your own advantage.

Mirror:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/aww10.htm

A Man at his Highest Point.

We are not born

perfect: every day we develop in our personality

and in our calling till we reach the highest point

of our completed being, to the full round of our

accomplishments, of our excellences. This is

known by the purity of our taste, the clearness of

our thought, the maturity of our judgment, and

the firmness of our will. Some never arrive at

being complete; somewhat is always awanting:

others ripen late. The complete man, wise in

speech, prudent in act, is admitted to the familiar

intimacy of discreet persons, is even sought for

by them.