The bourgeoisie is any group of individuals dissatisfied with what they have and satisfied with what they are.
Wisdom comes down to not showing God how things should be done.
Between intelligent adversaries there exists a secret sympathy, since we all owe our intelligence and our virtues to the virtues and intelligence of our enemy.
What are called good manners are habits derived from respect for a superior transformed into dealings between equals.
Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.
My thanks to Michael Millerman for bringing the Colombian philosopher Nicolás Gómez Dávila aka Don Colacho (1913-1994) to my attention.
