Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Men can be divided into the many altruists, busy correcting everyone else, and the few egoists, busy tidying themselves up. Escolios a un Te...

The egoist may not know what is suitable for himself, but he does not act, at least, as if he knew what is suitable for everyone else. Escol...

A “patriot,” in democracies, is someone who lives from the State; an “egoist,” someone from whom the State lives. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

When the race of egoists absorbed in perfecting themselves dies out, nobody will be left to remind us that we have the duty to save our inte...

The three hypostases of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism. The democratic trinity. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

Individual egoism believes it is absolved when it is compressed together into a collective egoism. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ...

We call an egoist anyone who does not sacrifice himself to our egoism. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 40