Two influential collections of aphorisms published in the twentieth century were The Uncombed Thoughts by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (in Polish), and Itch of Wisdom by Mikhail Turovsky (in Russian and English).
Long neglected for their historical merit by historians, except for James Grant Duff in the making of his "History of the Marathas", due to their colourful literary style with elements of Marathi, Sanskrit aphorisms and Persian administrative jargon, bakhars are recently being investigated for their historical content.
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.
He developed the science of breath and mind and wrote his knowledge in the form of between 194 and 196 aphorisms called the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Madan had an eye for aphorisms, and each Christmas between 1929 and 1933 sent a small anthology from his notebooks to his friends.
Setantí was a precursor of Baltasar Gracián and of the other great cultivators of aphorisms during the Spanish Baroque.
Rabbi Lugarto came to Brazil as a young man and was the author of a volume of aphorisms (copies of which, evidently, no longer exist).
His folksy aphorisms (published in his "Starbeams" feature) are often collected in books and on Internet sites.