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The Best Small Books Packed with Wisdom

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I love good aphorisms and maxims. Brevity and clarity packed with wisdom and truth.

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    The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence (Penguin Classics)
    by Balthasar Gracian

    Written ~370 years ago, this collection of 300 aphorisms, maxims etc are timeless. You'll laugh out loud at how on the money they are.

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    Maxims and Reflections (Penguin Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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    Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (Oxford World's Classics)
    by François de La Rochefoucauld

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    The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    by NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB

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    Aphorisms (The Schocken Kafka Library)
    by Franz Kafka

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