Other important early aphorists were Baltasar Gracián, François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal.
Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647), translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom (by Joseph Jacobs, 1892), The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion (by L.B. Walton), Practical Wisdom for Perilous Times (in selections by J. Leonard Kaye), or The Science of Success and the Art of Prudence, his most famous book, some 300 aphorisms with comments.
Setantí was a precursor of Baltasar Gracián and of the other great cultivators of aphorisms during the Spanish Baroque.
Baltasar Kormákur | Baltasar Garzón | Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros | Baltasar Gracián | Baltasar Lobo | Baltasar and Blimunda | Baltasar Marradas | Baltasar Corrada del Río | Baltasar Brum |
He translated into French several works by Alexander Pope, Henry Bolingbroke, William Warburton's The Alliance between Church and State, (1736) as Dissertations sur l'Union de la Religion, de la Morale, et de la Politique (1742) and Baltasar Gracián's El político.