RECOMMEND

Tired of the pretty phrases they sell you as absolute truths? Of those sages with beards, gowns or microphones who dictate how you should live? Then open this book if you dare, because here you will not find a single shred of reverence.
This is a settling of scores with established wisdom. The antidote to the virus of solemnity.
Instead of kneeling before an aphorism, here we turn it inside out like a dirty sock. And we look at it with the eyes of someone who has seen Socrates dodging flying plates thrown by his wife, Lincoln taming enemies with barbecues, or Cervantes selling you patience when what you really needed was a well-placed kick.
From the philosopher who turned his marital failure into a pedagogical method, to the writer who assures you that happiness is having a bad memory (and conveniently forgets to sign off on his own contradictions). We have gathered the elite of universal thought to subject them to the only thing they truly deserve: an analysis loaded with humour, spite, and the kind of affection with which you take down a friend who has taken himself too seriously.
Do not look here for cheap comfort or kid-glove treatment. I only offer you complicity and the laughter that shakes you when someone says out loud what you always suspected: that behind every famous quote, there is a human being just as full of contradictions, excuses and whims as you and me.
So do not sit down, nor relax (it is not that serious). Prepare to discover that universal wisdom, deep down, is just the art of saying foolish things with good spelling and a bit of rhythm.
And if those great men knew how we have interpreted them... some would die laughing. Others, with rage. And very justifiably so.