The purpose of the following article is to show the changes suffered by thenotions of dissimulatio and simulatio during the Baroque period. Specifically, my intention is to illustrate, through the works of Gracian and Accetto, how these rhetorical figures become ways of confronting life.La intención del presente trabajo es mostrar cómo, durante el Barroco, lasfiguras retóricas de la dissimulatio y la simulatio, pasan a ser estrategias para enfrentar las dificultades de la vida, según se ilustra en los tratados de Baltazar Gracián y Torcuato Accetto.