I was surfing the net when I stumbled upon a series of strange maxims by an obscur author Baltasar Gracián.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/index.htm
300 maxims called The Art of Worldly Wisdom.
This is a collection of 300 paragraphs on various topics giving advice and guidance on how to live fully, advance socially, and be a better person.
As far as I know, Graciàn was a writer, a philosoph and a priest ...