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The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,801 ratings — published 1647
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,844 ratings — published 2010
Return to Freedom: A Traveler's Thoughts on Life, Love and the Fate of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 8 ratings — published
Maxims and Reflections (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 740 ratings — published 1833
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,323 ratings — published 1882
Maxims for Revolutionists (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 130 ratings — published 1902
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 180,843 ratings — published -350
Meditations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 337,527 ratings — published 180
Scorn: The Wickedest Insults in Human History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.52 — 192 ratings — published
Maxims Minimus: Reflections in Microstyle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2012
The Upanishads (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 17,585 ratings — published -500
A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (The Companion Series)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1985
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 1,795 ratings — published 2005
Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
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avg rating 4.04 — 73 ratings — published 1746
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 111,878 ratings — published 1609
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 112,614 ratings — published 1886
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,898 ratings — published 1332
Maximes et Pensées: Caractères et Anecdotes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 133 ratings — published 1982
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,033,205 ratings — published 2021
Massime spirituali (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.19 — 85 ratings — published
Maxims of Law: - An English Version - (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Maxims from Mahabharata (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 139 ratings — published 2022
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 269 ratings — published 2010
600 Quotes of Ancient Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published
Roots of Strategy: Book 1 - The 5 Greatest Military Classics of All Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 160 ratings — published 1941
The 33 Strategies of War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 19,738 ratings — published 2001
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 563,969 ratings — published -500
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 155 ratings — published 2007
The Oxford Essential Quotations Dictionary (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published 1992
L'ultimo tra i sognatori (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.00 — 10 ratings — published 2013
Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,211 ratings — published 1881
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 11,031 ratings — published 1911
Aphorisms on Love and Hate (Penguin Little Black Classics, #5)
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avg rating 3.53 — 5,268 ratings — published 1878
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 10,901 ratings — published 1973
The Book of Monelle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,485 ratings — published 1894
The Waste Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 855 ratings — published 1799
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 13,090 ratings — published 1878
القرآن الكريم (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 72,118 ratings — published 632
The Manners of the Dervishes: Tales from the Gulestan (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2015
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 751 ratings — published -560
The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century (Shambhala Library)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,309 ratings — published 1960
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde (The Wicked Wit of series)
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avg rating 3.77 — 93 ratings — published 2015
Great Ideas Human Happiness (Penguin Great Ideas)
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avg rating 3.66 — 356 ratings — published 1669
Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 26,562 ratings — published 2018
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.11 — 927 ratings — published 2015
Napalm & Silly Putty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 16,821 ratings — published 2001
Brain Droppings (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 18,313 ratings — published 1997
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“...his methods of achieving his aim were a constant throughout his life:
• No matter how verbose the orders, render them down to simple aims.
• Know your enemy.
• Plan every move from the point of departure to the point of return. Keep the element of surprise in mind at all times. Plan boldly and act boldly (but not foolishly).
• Ask the question “What if . . . ” at every stage of the plan. Ask that question no matter how outlandish it may seem to be.
• Give honest orders and honest answers to the troops’ questions.
• Do not delegate a task unless prepared to do it yourself.
• Select the right equipment, but always remember that it is the man who counts.
• Rehearse, rehearse, and then rehearse again.
• Hope for—but do not expect—good luck. If good luck does appear to be with you, exploit it—fast.
No one will deny that the Meadows-detailed preparation and planning phases for any operation paid off. It is a technique still practiced throughout Special Forces.”
― The Quiet Professional: Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces
• No matter how verbose the orders, render them down to simple aims.
• Know your enemy.
• Plan every move from the point of departure to the point of return. Keep the element of surprise in mind at all times. Plan boldly and act boldly (but not foolishly).
• Ask the question “What if . . . ” at every stage of the plan. Ask that question no matter how outlandish it may seem to be.
• Give honest orders and honest answers to the troops’ questions.
• Do not delegate a task unless prepared to do it yourself.
• Select the right equipment, but always remember that it is the man who counts.
• Rehearse, rehearse, and then rehearse again.
• Hope for—but do not expect—good luck. If good luck does appear to be with you, exploit it—fast.
No one will deny that the Meadows-detailed preparation and planning phases for any operation paid off. It is a technique still practiced throughout Special Forces.”
― The Quiet Professional: Major Richard J. Meadows of the U.S. Army Special Forces
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