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The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 4,942 ratings — published 1647
Maxims and Reflections (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 754 ratings — published 1833
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 11,032 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
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,837 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 — 184,443 ratings — published -350
Meditations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 360,002 ratings — published 180
Scorn: The Wickedest Insults in Human History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.51 — 193 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 — 17,880 ratings — published -500
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 1,828 ratings — published 2005
Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 74 ratings — published 1746
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 113,196 ratings — published 1609
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 116,172 ratings — published 1886
Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,941 ratings — published 1332
Maximes et Pensées: Caractères et Anecdotes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 138 ratings — published 1982
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 1,410,177 ratings — published 2021
Massime spirituali (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.18 — 87 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 — 138 ratings — published 2022
Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 274 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 — 162 ratings — published 1941
The 33 Strategies of War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 20,216 ratings — published 2001
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 580,372 ratings — published -500
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 159 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 — 2,265 ratings — published 1881
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 11,124 ratings — published 1911
Aphorisms on Love and Hate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 5,645 ratings — published 1878
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 11,424 ratings — published 1973
The Book of Monelle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,532 ratings — published 1894
The Waste Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 875 ratings — published 1799
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 13,374 ratings — published 1878
القرآن الكريم (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 73,144 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 3.59 — 788 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 — 3,351 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 3.65 — 364 ratings — published 1669
Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 26,837 ratings — published 2018
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.11 — 971 ratings — published 2015
Napalm & Silly Putty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 16,944 ratings — published 2001
Brain Droppings (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 18,443 ratings — published 1997
The Analects (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 24,309 ratings — published -475
“Of all our passions, that which is most unknown to ourselves is indolence. Although the injuries it causes are very imperceptible, no other passion is more ardent or more malignant. If we consider attentively its influence we shall see that on every occasion it renders itself master of our sentiments, our interests, and our pleasures; it is the remora which arrests the course of the largest vessels, a calm more dangerous to the most important affairs than rocks or tempests. The repose of indolence is a secret spell of the mind which suspends our most ardent pursuits and our firmest resolves.”
― Maxims and Moral Reflections
― Maxims and Moral Reflections
“Maxims
If you work harder and look more closely, there's always something you can whittle away. It's when you get to the essence of your idea that you'll have something to be proud of. 196
Blunt is Simplicity. Meandering is Complexity. 13
The simplest way isn't always the easiest. 2
You can't let yourself be talked into going along with something when you know there's something better. Ever. 15
Apple encourages big thinking but small everything else. 25
Simplicity's best friend: Small groups of smart people. 26
Great ideas travel with a degree of risk. 39
Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff. ~ Steve Jobs's advice to Nike. 51
The less the merrier. 54
Simplicity never stands till. 70
To accomplish great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. ~ Leonard Bernstein, 72
Aim realistically high. 72
Never stop moving. 73
As long as you've got new ideas to share, you are free to re-present the old ones. 110
Simplicity gains power through brevity. 133
Simplicity is in a hurry. 134
Simplicity has universal appeal. 161
It's really hard to design things by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. ~ Steve Jobs, 164
Take advice, not orders. 166
So it must become your nature never to relent. You never want to come out even, because in this game a tie goes to Complexity. 192”
― Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
If you work harder and look more closely, there's always something you can whittle away. It's when you get to the essence of your idea that you'll have something to be proud of. 196
Blunt is Simplicity. Meandering is Complexity. 13
The simplest way isn't always the easiest. 2
You can't let yourself be talked into going along with something when you know there's something better. Ever. 15
Apple encourages big thinking but small everything else. 25
Simplicity's best friend: Small groups of smart people. 26
Great ideas travel with a degree of risk. 39
Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff. ~ Steve Jobs's advice to Nike. 51
The less the merrier. 54
Simplicity never stands till. 70
To accomplish great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. ~ Leonard Bernstein, 72
Aim realistically high. 72
Never stop moving. 73
As long as you've got new ideas to share, you are free to re-present the old ones. 110
Simplicity gains power through brevity. 133
Simplicity is in a hurry. 134
Simplicity has universal appeal. 161
It's really hard to design things by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. ~ Steve Jobs, 164
Take advice, not orders. 166
So it must become your nature never to relent. You never want to come out even, because in this game a tie goes to Complexity. 192”
― Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
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