Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Envy tends to be the true force behind moral indignation. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 477

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sele...

Envy is the key to more stories than sex. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 467

Nothing is more common than to despise many persons who should actually arouse our envy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 456

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 450

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters. Escolios a un Texto...

We do not always distinguish what harms our delicate nature from what provokes our envy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 419

Goodness and beauty are not mutually exclusive except where goodness serves as a pretext for envy and beauty for luxury. Escolios a un Texto...

The rich man is not disconcerted by anyone except by someone who does not envy him. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 380

It is easier to be compassionate than it is not to feel envy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 365

In a democracy the only man who smiles at everyone else is the politician in search of votes. No one else can afford the luxury of smiling a...

The left is a collection of those who blame society for nature’s shabby treatment of them. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 353

Every society eventually bursts when envy expands too far. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 335

The number of censurable things is greatly reduced when one ceases to covet. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 334

Compassion is the best excuse for envy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 332

The compassion we display to some helps us to justify the envy which others awaken in us. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 325

Whoever denies the bourgeoisie its virtues has been infected with the worst of its vices. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 314

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 310

The speed with which modern society absorbs its enemies could not be explained if their apparently hostile clamor were not simply an impatie...

Modern luxury disarms envy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 292