## Benjamin Franklin
We are not so sensible of the greatest health as of the least sickness.
#aphorism #happiness #awareness
When the well is dry we know the worth of water.
#aphorism #awareness #happiness
A good example is the best sermon.
#aphorism #leadership
Content and riches seldom meet together.
#aphorism #happiness #wealth
If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles.
#aphorism #happiness
To whom your secret you tell, to him your freedom you sell.
#aphorism #freedom
The way to be safe is never to be sure.
#aphorism #wisdom
## Aaron Haspel
Many books are least likely to be read by the people who would profit most by reading them.
#aphorism #paradox #reading
No book has ever been too short.
#aphorism #reading
You may not get the size of audience you deserve, but you always get the kind.
#aphorism #work #success
Restaurants fail more frequently than gas stations because no one dreams of quitting his corporate job to open a gas station.
#aphorism #work #business
The most interesting things to do are the dullest to watch.
#aphorism #paradox
It is when we recognize our hopeless inadequacy at everything else that we discover our vocation.
#aphorism #career #via_negativa
The more you know how things work, the less you expect them to.
#aphorism #paradox #knowledge
The less you are contradicted, the stupider you become.
The more powerful you become, the less you are contradicted.
#aphorism #knowledge #debate
To regard oneself as the exception is the rule.
#aphorism #self
We wish, not to be understood, but to be misunderstood exactly as we misunderstand ourselves.
#aphorism #socializing #self
What you lose with age is not so much capacity as the illusion that you ever had them.
#aphorism #age #skill
Our awareness of what we deserve, but lack, is surpassed only by our blindness to what we have, but do not deserve.
#aphorism #awareness
Belief in karma is the coward's revenge.
#aphorism #fool
Most of the great art ever produced has been destroyed, forgotten, or unrecognized.
#aphorism #work #awareness
Today we hear silence as our ancestors heard music.
#aphorism #silence
To get on with children, treat them like adults; to get on with adults, treat them like children.
#aphorism #paradox #socializing
We all suffer from a variety of psychiatric disorders, which used to be known as personality.
#aphorism #modernity #human_nature
There is a level of fame where it is no longer necessary to be interesting, and a higher level where it is no longer possible.
#aphorism #fame
## Franz Kafka
Dealings with people bring about self-scrutiny.
#aphorism #self #socializing
In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world's coat.
#aphorism #self #socializing
The disproportion of the world seems fortunately to be merely numerical.
#aphorism #reality #reason #knowledge
## Gregorio Luri
Ninguna persona débil es buena por el mero hecho de ser débil.
#aphorism #ethics
En el diálogo, más que la verdad suele pesar la necesidad de guarecer la propia imagen.
#aphorism #socializing
Lo que hay que pedirle a un diálogo honesto no es que nos ponga de acuerdo, sino que ilumine nuestras diferencias.
#aphorism #truth
El que pretende librarse de la tradición para caminar más liviano es como el tullido que arroja sus muletas para librarse de su invalidez.
#aphorism #past
## Heraclitus
Just as the river where I step is not the same, and is, so I am as I am not.
#aphorism #change
What was cold soon warms, and warmth soon cools. So moisture dries, and dry things drown.
#aphorism #cycle
From the strain of binding opposites comes harmony.
#aphorism #equilibrium
The cosmos works by harmony of tensions, like the lyre and bow. Therefore, good and ill are one.
#aphorism #equilibrium
Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within.
#aphorism #self
Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune. Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep.
#aphorism #happiness
## José Saramago
É bem verdade que nem a juventude sabe o que pode, nem a velhice pode o que sabe.
#aphorism #age
Tudo no mundo está dando respostas, o que demora é o tempo das perguntas.
#aphorism #life
Há razões, se as procurarmos encontramo-las sempre, razões para explicar qualqer coisa nunca faltaram, mesmo não sendo as certas.
#aphorism #knowledge
Quem mais ordena não é quem mais pode, quem mais pode não é quem mais parece.
#aphorism #success
As verdades são muitas, enquanto não lutarem não se saberá onde está a mentira.
#aphorism #truth
## Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is tempting to say: 'Naturally, it had to happen that way'. While one should think: 'That and many other ways could it have happened.'
#aphorism #uncertainty
What you take as a present is a problem you must solve.
#aphorism #socializing
When you give a present and boast about it, you condemn both what you gave and yourself.
#aphorism #socializing
When you get ready for an eventuality, you can be sure it will not happen.
#aphorism #uncertainty
## Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
#aphorism #love #marriage
The person engaged in action is always unconscionable; no one except the contemplative has a conscience.
#aphorism #awareness
No one is more a slave than the one who thinks he is free without being free.
#aphorism #freedom
A person has only to say he is free and he immediately feels constrained. If he has the courage to say he is constrained, then he feels free.
#aphorism #freedom
We are never further away from our desires than when we imagine we possess what we desire.
#aphorism #happiness #desire
Writting up history is one way of getting rid of the past.
#aphorism #history
The more unselfish a man is, the more he is... subordinated to those who are selfish.
#aphorism #human_nature #selfish
The senses don't deceive; judgement deceives.
#aphorism #knowledge
You really only know when you know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
#aphorism #knowledge
Fools and intelligent people are equally undamaging. Half-fools and half-sages, these are the most dangerous of all.
#aphorism #fool #wisdom
We can only save time by spending it.
#aphorism #paradox
A person who doesn't rate himself too highly is worth much more than he imagines.
#aphorism #self
People hear what they understand
#aphorism #socializing
When you praise someone, you are putting yourself on a par with him.
#aphorism #socializing
You ask which form of government is the best? Whichever teaches us to govern ourselves.
#aphorism #freedom
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
#aphorism #success
## Fernando Pessoa
El tiempo despacha deprisa a quien lo despacha a prisa.
#aphorism #time
Si algún día alguien dejase de encontrarme ridículo, yo entristecería al conocerme, por esa señal objetiva, en decadencia mortal.
#aphorism #self
Es tanta la decadencia que ya ni decadentes hay.
#aphorism #society
El hombre perfecto del pagano era la perfección del hombre existente; el hombre perfecto del cristiano es la perfección del hombre que no existe; el hombre perfecto del budista es la perfección de no existir el hombre.
#aphorism #religion #ethics #virtue #humanism
## Antonio Machado
Sólo triunfa quien pone la vela donde sopla el aire; jamás quien pretende que sople el aire donde pone la vela.
#aphorism #success
## Juan Ramón Jiménez
La tristeza ideal unida a la fuerza corporal da motivo a la melancolía; la tristeza ideal unida a la debilidad da motivo a la desesperación.
Wisdom
La vida nunca da lo que se espera. Ahora bien: unos se conforman y otros no. A esta conformidad suele llamarse felicidad.
Acceptance
Nada llega después, ni antes.
Acceptance
La juventud debe revolucionar, gritar; la madurez, señalar, criticar.
Age
Si quieres llegar a viejo, sé siempre joven.
Age
Biombos y espejos. La vida.
Awareness
Que inconciencia y conciencia salgan de igual profundidad a nuestro ser.
Awareness
No es lo mismo ver el sol desde la sombra que el sol desde el sol.
Awareness
Hay que equilibrar la tristeza de algunos sueños perdidos con la alegría de algún trabajo realizado.
Awareness
Me resigno, sé que donde quiera que esté, soñaré siempre con un viaje a lo lejano.
Awareness
Lo vivo, cuanto más lejano, más vivo; lo muerto, cuanto más reciente, más muerto.
Awareness
Cuando estéis trabajando en una cosa y se os vaya la ilusión a otra, pensar que ésta en que trabajáis sería vuestra ilusión si estuviérais con la ilusionada.
Awareness
En el hombre hay siempre una tendencia a lo ideal, a lo que está fuera del momento, aun en lo cotidiano.
Awareness
Los que dicen que no creen en la forma son los mismos que por su torpeza hacen pensar más en ella.
Beauty
Soy amigo de la síntesis. Por eso prefiero la rosa a la rosaleda, el ruiseñor a la ruiseñorera, el aforismo a la monserga ensayística, la lírica a la épica.
Brevity
Ser breve, en arte, es, ante todo, suprema moralidad.
Brevity
Ladra el perro a su sombra y le responde su eco.
Complexity
Todo es siempre menos.
Enough
De lo distante, lo necesario; de lo cercano, lo suficiente.
Enough
La forma material de la rosa acabaría si no fuese por la forma de su esencia.
Evolution
La razón de mi falta de gusto en la vida corriente está en que no me importa el goce en sí sino la perpetuidad del goce posible. Y como el goce no puede ser eterno lo cambio por perpetuidades más verdaderas.
Happiness
Si queremos ser felices, no vayamos tras lo que se va, quedémonos con lo que se queda.
Happiness
Donde quiera que la gente se esté riendo, tened la seguridad de que hay algo que llorar.
Happiness
Todos los éxtasis dinámicos (amor, poesía,…) son esencialmente leves y sólo pueden prolongarse por medios artificiales. Su eternidad, su eficacia, está en su brevedad, su intensa, infinita brevedad.
Happiness
Es tal la confusión de mi ideal que ya no sé lo que debo pedirle al destino.
Impermanence
Qué inmenso trabajo para creerse fijo en un mundo en movimiento!
Impermanence
Dejémosle, sin avaricia, la ilusión del día de ayer, como una flor o una joya, a su cadáver, nuestro cadáver del día de ayer.
Impermanence
Con los demás hablad solo de cosas indiferentes; lo trascendental resolvedlo a solas con vosotros.
Isolation
El verdadero talento es asceta, como la verdadera virtud; se nutre de la soledad y del silencio.
Isolation
Detesto y me parece cosa de tontos eso de las primeras ediciones. A mí las que me interesan son las últimas, las definitivas.
Knowledge
El consejo no puede tomarlo sino el que tiene la experiencia necesaria para ello; de modo que los únicos consejos útiles serían los que diera la juventud a la vejez.
Learning
Los discípulos serán siempre otros que los que uno conoce.
Legacy
Las cosas, todas las cosas bellas y feas, prácticas e inútiles, malas o graciosas, desde la flor a la rueda, aman a quien las ama.
Love
Vivo el recuerdo de una vida que no he vivido y la esperanza de una vida que no he de vivir.
Memory
El olvido no nos sustrae las cosas, nos las contiene.
Memory
La memoria es hija del ruido; el olvido, hijo del silencio.
Memory
La bondad suele nacer del remordimiento.
Opposites
No hay modo mejor de llegar a la perfección que pasar por lo imperfecto.
Opposites
Era casi perfecta. Su mayor encanto estaba en el casi.
Perfection
Lo que te perfecciona te mata; la perfección es veneno, sin ningún género de duda.
Perfection
La perfección es la espontaneidad del espíritu cultivado.
Perfection
La perfección sale de la raíz misma de lo subconsciente bien alimentado, y un poco al azar, como la flor.
Perfection
Es inútil trazarse una senda; el pensamiento es flor del día.
Uncertainty
Clarividente: sentimiento destilado por la conciencia. Iluminado: Pensamiento pasado por el corazón.
Reason
La inteligencia no sirve para guiar al instinto, sino para comprenderlo.
Reason
Orden en lo exterior, inquietud en el espíritu.
Self-Knowledge
Para ser uno infinito no hay más que perderse en nuestro propio mar. Y este es más dulce naufragio que el del otro mar alto.
Self-Knowledge
Para desordenarme por dentro tengo que ordenarme por fuera.
Self-Knowledge
El convencimiento que uno tenga de sí mismo y de su obra debe ser tal que la crítica ajena, por excesiva que sea en cualquier sentido, afirmativo o negativo, no le ponga ni le quite.
Self-Knowledge
Cuanto más leo a los otros mejor comprendo lo que yo soy.
Self-Knowledge
La crítica me importa tan poco, como a la naturaleza deben importarle las leyes que le hacen un físico o un químico.
Self-Knowledge
Como no es posible dar gusto a todo el mundo, optemos por lo más difícil: dárnoslo a nosotros mismos.
Self-Knowledge
Desconfiad de vosotros cuando comencéis a gustar, cuando el elogio a lo vuestro sea unánime.
Self-Knowledge
Cuando se pone a la rosa como ejemplo de sencillez, no se suele pensar en los siglos que ha tardado la naturaleza en crearla.
Simplicity
Tememos más, a veces, que sea verdad una cosa nuestra porque lo diga otro que si la pensamos nosotros mismos.
Socializing
No siento nunca tristeza mayor que después de haber hablado mucho.
Socializing
Se piensa más hablando con otros que soñando solo, porque hablando con otros es más honda la necesidad de la persuasión.
Socializing
Evitemos el visitante que no nos trae idea o sentimiento sino anécdota o historia.
Socializing
Hay dos clases de personas: las que necesitan guardar su secreto y las que no necesitan guardarlo. Estos viven de su misterio, aquellos contra su misterio.
Socializing
Mejor callar que hablar; mejor pensar que callar; mejor leer que pensar. Leyendo, el mismo silencio se calla y podemos pensar en compañía.
Thinking
El deleite mayor de mi vida es coger un pensamiento y llevármelo a un lado del camino a contemplarlo, a devorarlo.
Thinking
El pasado tiene ese prestigio porque el tiempo borra todo lo cotidiano y deja solo lo ideal.
Time
Nunca tengo más que un plan: hacer eterno lo inesperado.
Uncertainty
Nada me gusta tanto como que los demás piensen de otro modo que yo. Sobre todo, que yo piense de otro modo que los demás.
Unique
El principio de la ciencia es el percatarse de la ignorancia. Así la ciencia antigua se reduce a deplorar el no poder definir, a empezar a darse cuenta. Dejar vacío el cerebro es tan grande como llenarlo de sabiduría.
Via Negativa
Saber es ir llenando de cajas vacías el desván de la ilusión.
Wisdom
No es necesario leer todos los libros, ni todo un libro, sino leer de todos los libros.
Wisdom
Que nadie tome consejo de este libro; lo único que vale es la propia experiencia.
Wisdom
¿Qué ofendes y qué defiendes, crítico, espino seco, cardo borriquero, si no eres creador?
Work
En la creación no puedo tener otra disciplina que la natural.
Work
Si mi obra se hiciera sola, sin esfuerzo mío, me gustaría bien poco; si la hiciera yo, sin voluntad suya, me gustaría aún menos.
Work
Un artista no es sino una persona descontenta que trastorna el mundo a su antojo.
Work
Más que la creación consciente, la crítica eficaz de lo espontáneo.
Work
Para corregir, volver a la obra de repente, cogerla desnuda en su soledad, por sorpresa.
Work
Una obra atraerá tanto tiempo cuanto dure su secreto.
Work
Si se trabaja bien cada día, el día no pasa.
Work
La palabra debe ser tan justa que se olvide el lector de ella y solo quede la idea; algo así como un río que no hiciera pensar en que lleva agua, sino que es corriente.
Writing
No se debe escribir en el idioma de las palabras, sino en el de los sentimientos.
Writing
Quien escribe como se habla, irá más lejos y será más hablado en lo porvenir que quien escribe como se escribe.
Writing
## Wu Hsin
Only the fool seeks to stop the shaking of the moon's reflection on the water. The acceptance of what cannot be changed paves the way to the changeless.
Wu Hsin
Acceptance
Whereas pain is a physical experience, suffering is a mental one. It is the sense that things should be other than they are. Its antidote is acceptance.
Wu Hsin
Acceptance
In human beings, there is a need to create order out of what is perceived to be chaos. This ordering mechanism is the mind. As such, the mind seeks causes to explain what it doesn't understand. Is the carrot the cause of the chicken soup or is it the chicken? Or is it the broth? Or is it the cook? With the apperception that everything is perfect as it is, that everything causes everything else, the mind, as fixer, as judge, as organizer, loses its relevance.
Wu Hsin
Acceptance
Suppression is a lack of acceptance, an attempt to nullify what is natural. The treatment of symptoms does not cure the disease. Effects vanish when causes are removed, not when they are suppressed.
Wu Hsin
Acceptance
Reject the path, reject the journey, reject the desire to become anything in particular. Reject time itself and become enveloped in what remains.
Wu Hsin
Acceptance
What is called peace by many is merely the absence of disturbance. True peace cannot be disturbed; it resides beyond the reach of disturbance.
Wu Hsin
Acceptance
The preoccupation with the foreground, the sights, the smells, the sounds, takes the attention away from the background. Yet, it is in this very background that the mystery resides.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
Contrary to popular belief, the perceiver and that which is perceived are two ends of the same stick. The absence of one is the absence of both. The absence of everything uncovers the presence of the seed of everything.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
Your sack of concepts compels you to see things in a prescribed manner. Dropping this sack allows your eyes to open and for clarity to manifest.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
Nothing succeeds like failure. Failure is a natural call for attention, like pain. To pay attention is to step out of your trance.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
Your only asset is the presence of awareness. With it, you are everything, without it, what are you?
Wu Hsin
Awareness
The beggar's bowl may be made of pure gold, but if the beggar does not know this, then he is a pauper.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
What is realization? Realization is the understanding that there is nothing to be realized. Nothing else.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
Those with wakefulness have lost everything. Therefore, they have nothing left to lose. They are fearless in the face of whatever appears.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
When here becomes everywhere and now becomes always, then one has succeeded.
Wu Hsin
Awareness
The man of contentment seeks nothing that he doesn't have and understands that whatever he has isn't his to own.
Wu Hsin
Enough
Chasing after more and more is futile. It is only less and less that lastingly satisfies.
Wu Hsin
Enough
Expectation is the grandfather of disappointment. The world can never own a man who wants nothing.
Wu Hsin
Enough
The greatest wealth is contentment. The greatest peace is attained through the abandonment of desires.
Wu Hsin
Enough
Man can do whatever he wants. However, he cannot will whatever he wants.
Wu Hsin
Freedom
A free man's life is a life that is free of demands, free of dependency. With nothing to drag along one goes where one will.
Wu Hsin
Freedom
The attachment to belief is the greatest shackle. To be free is to know that one does not know.
Wu Hsin
Freedom
The greatest enjoyment is experienced when there is no concern for its duration.
Wu Hsin
Happiness
Desire is the urge to be happy. Desirelessness is the fruit of the recognition of inherent happiness.
Wu Hsin
Happiness
To be free of the obsession with the future, with the preoccupation of what to do next, is most well regarded by those that others label as lazy. Even if it were so, it would be the highest form of laziness.
Wu Hsin
Idleness
In order for this world to be known, the knower must precede it.
Wu Hsin
Knowledge
When the mind feasts, true knowledge is lost. When the mind eats not, true knowledge manifests.
Wu Hsin
Knowledge
The loss of habitual certainties is the gain of clear vision. The common man looks at things, uncommon man sees through them.
Wu Hsin
Knowledge
Utilizing the mind in the attempt to achieve ultimate understanding is akin to hiring a thief to protect a house from burglars.
Wu Hsin
Knowledge
Don't seek how your questions may be answered. Seek that your answers may be questioned.
Wu Hsin
Learning
Beginning and end are not two, but equal aspects of one. The fruit contains the seed, which contains the fruit.
Wu Hsin
Life & Death
You are a microcosm of the cosmos. Your body is comprised of all the elements of the world. The cosmos has donated itself to make you. The day will come when she requests a refund. Grant it smilingly.
Wu Hsin
Life & Death
No mountain has only one side. At times, it is sunny on one side and raining on the other. The side that has seen the sun will experience the rain.
Wu Hsin
Life & Death
How glorious is the purposeless life. Events occur in their natural course and one need not do anything or be anything in particular. Can there be a greater freedom than this?
Wu Hsin
Purpose
Life is its own purpose. There is nothing that needs to be done and there is no one to do it.
Wu Hsin
Purpose
Seeing clearly is an impersonal event, occurring in the absence of one intending to see clearly. In fact, it is the one intending to see clearly that is the very impediment to seeing clearly.
Wu Hsin
Self
The temples and monasteries cannot hide you when you are running away from yourself. There is no sanctuary other than to dive inward and investigate who is running away from what.
Wu Hsin
Self
The central problem is not that you think too highly of yourself, nor is it that you think too lowly of yourself. Instead, it is that you think constantly of yourself.
Wu Hsin
Self
True freedom is freedom from "my".
Wu Hsin
Self
In the absence of identification with any thing, who are you? Or better, what are you?
Wu Hsin
Self
There is no forest, there is no cave, there is no mountaintop where one can hide from oneself.
Wu Hsin
Self
How can light find darkness? Darkness is merely the absence of light. How can one find one's source? One's source is revealed in the absence of one's self.
Wu Hsin
Self
Man is not possessed by a separate self. He is merely possessed by his belief in one.
Wu Hsin
Self
To know that one is, is natural. To know what one is requires a diving into the depths of one's own being. The pearl rests on the bottom.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
What one really is is what one is in the absence of the who that one thinks one is.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
All doing is contained in being. When the attention is shifted from doing to being, the doing takes care of itself without any intended doing and in the absence of a doer.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
What does the orange tree have to do to grow oranges? What does the sky have to do to be blue? What do you have to do to be?
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
Look deeply inside yourself and try to find yourself. The ensuing failure is the true finding.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
The greatest crime is the overlooking of who you really are in favor of the story of who you think you are. This preoccupation with your personal drama is the cloud that masks the sun.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
A comfortable bed does not lessen the discomfort of a nightmare.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
Madness is little more than the searching outside for what can only be found within. To change the face in the mirror, one doesn't change the mirror.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
In order to achieve understanding, one's focus need be less on what one is and more on what one is not. When the clouds all disappear, the sun is revealed in its full splendor.
Wu Hsin
Self-Knowledge
What problems can there be that the mind did not create? The solution to problems begins with the cessation in believing in the content of one's thoughts.
Wu Hsin
Thinking
The inherent nature of mind is to process thought. To attempt the cessation of thought goes against what is natural. The goal, therefore, is not the cessation of thought but the cessation of identification with thought.
Wu Hsin
Thinking
Thoughts intrude, like unwelcome guests at a party. Ignored and unfed, they depart.
Wu Hsin
Thinking
From the point of view of the person, problems never cease. From the point of view of the totality, problems never arise. Perfection is disturbed by the arrival of judgment.
Wu Hsin
Thinking
What is natural requires no study or practice for mastery. Does one study how to sleep? To reach what is natural, merely remove what is not natural.
Wu Hsin
Via negativa
How many of your questions have been answered, but still you don't have the answer? Is it possible that the answer isn't found in more questions? Is it possible the answer isn't found in more concepts? More thoughts? Is it possible that the answer is revealed in their very absence?
Wu Hsin
Via Negativa
What can you really claim to be yours when it can be taken, in the time it takes to snap a finger, by the one who gave it to you?
Wu Hsin
Wealth
Turning the attention toward the unfamiliar and away from the familiar is a prerequisite to the arrival at true understanding.
Wu Hsin
Wisdom
## Nassim Taleb
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
Nassim Taleb
Age
It is not possible to have fun when you try.
Nassim Taleb
Awareness
When you see from the outside a quaint village with a seemingly idyllic life, consider that the locals are preoccupied with local intrigues, split into fractious alliances, and entangled into petty disputes.
Nassim Taleb
Awareness
When you are shown a picture of an unspoiled, lush, and picturesque lakeside forest, imagine that, in person, you would be exposed to the summer heat, high humidity, and, mostly, exasperating mosquito bites.
Nassim Taleb
Awareness
Skills that transfer: street fights, off-path hiking, seduction, erudition; skills that don't: school, games, sports, laboratory - what's reduced and organized.
Nassim Taleb
Change, Variability
What they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip; and what they call gossip I call voyeurism.
Nassim Taleb
Culture
An academic cannot lose his tenure, but a business man and risk taker can go bankrupt. That is the infuriating inequality.
Nassim Taleb
Ethics
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
Nassim Taleb
Fools
If you want to drive a fool to insolvency, lend him or her some money.
Nassim Taleb
Fools
The fool considers that what he doesn't understand is either extremely stupid, or extremely intelligent, pending on how others react to it.
Nassim Taleb
Fools
The best revenge on a liar is to convince him that you believe what he said.
Nassim Taleb
Fools, Ignorants, Crooks
To check if it is a fraud, don't investigate the merchant. Rather, look at the customers.
Nassim Taleb
Fraud
Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working.
Nassim Taleb
Freedom
You don't become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
Nassim Taleb
Freedom
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Taleb
Freedom
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
Nassim Taleb
Freedom
Life is about early detection of the reversal point beyond which your own belongings (say, a house, car, or business) start owning you.
Nassim Taleb
Freedom
The worst damage has been caused by competent people trying to do good; the best improvements have been brought by incompetent ones not trying to do good.
Nassim Taleb
Freedom
You are free if everything you say in private (about public matters) can be made public. You reach the apex of freedom if everything you think in private (about public matters) can be made public.
Nassim Taleb
Freedom
A genius is someone with flaws harder to imitate than his qualities.
Nassim Taleb
Genius, Fools, Magnificents
The fool views himself as more unique and others more generic; the wise views himself as more generic and others more unique.
Nassim Taleb
Genius, Fools, Magnificents
If you want to make people miserable, pay them (generously and predictably) for their hobbies.
Nassim Taleb
Happiness
I wonder if a lion or a cannibal would pay a high premium for free-range humans.
Nassim Taleb
Health
With terminal disease, nature lets you die with abbreviated suffering; medicine lets you suffer with prolonged dying.
Nassim Taleb
Health
Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.
Nassim Taleb
Human Nature
Sports feminize men and masculinize women.
Nassim Taleb
Human Nature
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
Nassim Taleb
Idleness
Being unimaginative is only a problem when you are easily bored.
Nassim Taleb
Idleness
The fact that people in countries with cold weather tend to be harder working, richer, less relaxed, less amicable, less tolerant of idleness, overorganized, and more harried than those in hotter climates should make us wonder whether wealth and motivation are indemnification and overcompensation for not having a real life.
Nassim Taleb
Idleness
Only in recent history has working hard signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.
Nassim Taleb
Idleness
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
Under opacity, incomplete information, and partial understanding, much of what we don't understand is labeled as irrational.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
In any subject, if you don't think that you don't know enough, you don't know enough.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
Studying neurobiology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
The problem with the idea of learning from one's mistakes is that most of what people call mistakes aren't mistakes.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
Knowledge is subtractive, not additive - what we subtract (reduction by what does not work, what not to do), not what we add (what to do).
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
Knowing stuff others don't know is most effective when others don't know you know stuff they don't know.
Nassim Taleb
Knowledge
Love without sacrifice is like theft.
Nassim Taleb
Love
Modernity's double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.
Nassim Taleb
Modernity
The dream of having computers behave like humans is coming true, with the transformation, in a single generation, of humans into computers.
Nassim Taleb
Modernity
Technology can degrade every aspect of a sucker's life while convincing him that it is becoming more efficient.
Nassim Taleb
Modernity
High Modernity: routine in place of physical effort, physical effort in place of mental expenditure, and mental expenditure in place of mental clarity.
Nassim Taleb
Modernity
Modernity replaced process with result and the relational with the transactional.
Nassim Taleb
Modernity
Most modern efficiencies are deferred punishment.
Nassim Taleb
Modernity
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death.
Nassim Taleb
Modernity
Social networks present information about what people like; more informative if, instead, they described what they don't like.
Nassim Taleb
Opposites
Social media are severely antisocial, health foods are empirically unhealthy, knowledge workers are very ignorant, and social sciences aren't scientific at all.
Nassim Taleb
Paradox
It is much less dangerous to think like a man of action than to act like a man of thought.
Nassim Taleb
Reason
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist an imbecile-proof one, or, even better, a rationalist-proof one.
Nassim Taleb
Reason
If something looks irrational - and has been so for a long time - odds are you have a wrong definition of rationality.
Nassim Taleb
Reason
Unless we manipulate our surroundings, we have as little control over what and whom we think about as we do over the muscles of our heart.
Nassim Taleb
Reason vs Emotion
If you find any reason why you and someone are friends, you are not friends.
Nassim Taleb
Relationships
Marriage is the institutional process of feminizing men - and feminizing women.
Nassim Taleb
Relationships
Religion isn't so much about telling man that there is one God as about preventing man from thinking that he is God.
Nassim Taleb
Religion
Not accounting for what is very unlikely to happen is like pardoning a murderer because most of the time he is a normal person.
Nassim Taleb
Risk, Uncertainty
The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Nassim Taleb
Self-Knowledge
Nobody wants to be perfectly transparent; not to others, certainly not to himself.
Nassim Taleb
Self-Knowledge
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
Nassim Taleb
Self-Knowledge
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic;the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.
Nassim Taleb
Self-Knowledge
People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
People don't like it when you ask them for help; they also feel left out when you don't ask them for help.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
They will envy you for your success, for your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Most of what they call humility is successfully disguised arrogance.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
If someone is making an effort to ignore you, he is not ignoring you.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Usually, what we call a good listener is someone with skillfully polished indifference.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
People reserve standard compliments for those who do not threaten their pride; the others they often praise by calling arrogant.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
By praising someone for his lack of defects you are also implying his lack of virtues.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
It is a very powerful manipulation to let others win the small battles.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Quite revealing of human preferences that more suicides come from shame or loss of financial and social status than medical diagnoses.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
If you socialize with someone with a smaller bank account than yours, you are obligated to converse as if you had exactly the same means, eat in the places where he eats, at no point in time show the pictures of your vacaiton in Provence or anything that hints at the differential in means.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
In most debates, people seem to be trying to convince one another; but all they can hope for is new arguments to convince themselves.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Rumors are only valuable when they are denied.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
People usually apologize so they can do it again.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
People tend to whisper when they say the truth and raise their voice when they lie.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
It is those who use others who are the most upset when someone uses them.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Finer men tolerate others' small inconsistencies though not the large ones; the weak tolerate others' large inconsistencies though not small ones.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Your silence is only informational if you can speak skillfully.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
People reveal much more about themselves while lying than when they tell the truth.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
You can only convince people who think they can benefit fom being convinced.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
I trust everyone except those who tell me thet are trustworthy.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
True generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Trust those who trust you and distrust those who are suspicious of others.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Those who have nothing to prove never say that they have nothing to prove.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
For company, you often prefer those who find you interesting over those you find interesting.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
Used skillfully, a compliment will be much more offensive than any disparagement.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
If you get easily bored, it means that your BS detector is functioning properly; if you forget some things, it means that your mind knows how to filter; and if you feel sadness, it means that you are human.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
The best way to know people is to find out what they lie about.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
When you say something you think are just saying something, but you are largely communicating why you had to say it.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
People are more convincing when they don't seem to care.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing
I wonder whether a bitter enemy would be jealous if he discovered that I hated someone else.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing, Friends, Enemies, Strangers
If you want strangers to help you, smile. For those close to you, cry.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing, Friends, Enemies, Strangers
Don't complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing, Friends, Enemies, Strangers
The ones who refer to you repeatedly as 'my friend' are most likely to betray you.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing, Friends, Enemies, Strangers
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, admirer, or partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing, Friends, Enemies, Strangers
Almost all those caught making a logical fallacty interpret it as a disagreement.
Nassim Taleb
Socializing, Truth
Don't talk about progress in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.
Nassim Taleb
Success
Most mistakes get worse when you try to correct them.
Nassim Taleb
Success
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Nassim Taleb
Success
What we commonly call success (rewards, status, recognition) is a consolation prize for those who are both unhappy and not good at what they do.
Nassim Taleb
Success
My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.
Nassim Taleb
Success
Contra the prevailing belief, success isn't being on top of a hierarchy, it is standing outside all hierarchies.
Nassim Taleb
Success
The only problem with the last laught is that the winner has to laugh alone.
Nassim Taleb
Success
To be a philosopher is to know by reasoning, a priori, what others can only potentially learn from their mistakes, crises, accidents - that is, a posteriori.
Nassim Taleb
Thinking
Real life (vita beata) is when your choices correspond to your duties.
Nassim Taleb
Virtue
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men, their duties.
Nassim Taleb
Virtue
A prostitute who sells her body is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure.
Nassim Taleb
Virtue
Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor.
Nassim Taleb
Virtue
Fortune punishes the greedy by making him poor and the very greedy by making him rich.
Nassim Taleb
Wealth
Wealthy is meaningless and has no absolute measure; use instead the subtractive measure unwealth, that is, the difference, at any point in time, between what you have and what you would like to have.
Nassim Taleb
Wealth
The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become pooe is to socialize with the rich.
Nassim Taleb
Wealth
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Nassim Taleb
Wealth
I fail to see the difference between extreme wealth and overdose.
Nassim Taleb
Wealth
If you like them, wish them financial security; if you dislike them, wish them extreme wealth.
Nassim Taleb
Wealth
An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
Nassim Taleb
Work
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
Nassim Taleb
Work
## Publius Syrus
It is folly to dread what cannot be avoided.
Publius Syrus
Acceptance
Bear without murmuring what cannot be changed.
Publius Syrus
Acceptance
We should bear our destiny, not weep over it.
Publius Syrus
Acceptance
Fortune takes nothing away but her own gifts.
Publius Syrus
Acceptance
To forget the wrongs you received is to remedy them.
Publius Syrus
Acceptance
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
Publius Syrus
Awareness
The life which we live is but a small part of the real life.
Publius Syrus
Awareness
What happens to one man may happen to all.
Publius Syrus
Awareness
Even to be hung one should choose a fine tree.
Publius Syrus
Beauty
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Publius Syrus
Change
Unless a man adds to his glory, he loses what he has.
Publius Syrus
Change
Man's life is a loan, not a gift.
Publius Syrus
Change
Consider nothing which is liable to change a permanent possession.
Publius Syrus
Change
It is an embarrassment to the possessor to have more than he needs.
Publius Syrus
Enough
A life of leisure is a kingdom with less care than a kingdom requires.
Publius Syrus
Enough
Poverty needs little, avarice needs everything.
Publius Syrus
Enough
He can have what he wishes who wishes just enough.
Publius Syrus
Enough
No amount of gain satisfies avarice.
Publius Syrus
Enough
Who has the greatest possessions? He who wants least.
Publius Syrus
Enough
Not to punish offenses, is to encourage depravity.
Publius Syrus
Ethics
He who chases two hares will catch neither.
Publius Syrus
Focus
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publius Syrus
Focus
Fortune has no more power over our destiny than our own actions.
Publius Syrus
Freedom
I am not your friend unless I share in your fortunes.
Publius Syrus
Friendship
Fear the envy of your friends more than the snares of your enemies.
Publius Syrus
Friendship
Give your friend cause to blush and you will likely lose him.
Publius Syrus
Friendship
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
Publius Syrus
Friendship
Confidence is the only bond of friendship.
Publius Syrus
Friendship
The friendship that can come to an end never really began.
Publius Syrus
Friendship
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
Call yourself happy and you invite the visits of misfortune.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
What matters is how much you have. There is more which you cannot have.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
Pleasant is the remembrance of the ills that are past.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
Repentance of our past deeds is a severe mental punishment.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
Do not find your happiness in another's sorrow.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
That which you thought to run away from will often meet you face to face.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
That does not always please us which is always within reach.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it cannot be so to yourself.
Publius Syrus
Happiness
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
Publius Syrus
Isolation
Mighty rivers may easily be leaped at their source.
Publius Syrus
Knowledge
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publius Syrus
Knowledge
The more benefits bestowed, the more received.
Publius Syrus
Philanthropy
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publius Syrus
Quiet
Either be silent or say something better than silence.
Publius Syrus
Quiet
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Publius Syrus
Quiet
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
Publius Syrus
Quiet
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
Publius Syrus
Quiet
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
Publius Syrus
Self-Knowledge
If you are a mariner, let landmen's business alone.
Publius Syrus
Self-Knowledge
Everyone excels in something in which another fails.
Publius Syrus
Self-Knowledge
Consult your conscience, rather than popular opinion.
Publius Syrus
Self-Knowledge
We all seek to know whether we shall be rich; but no one asks whether he shall be good.
Publius Syrus
Self-Knowledge
Keep the golden mean, between saying too much and too little.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Life and reputation travel with equal pace.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Do not be too hasty in accusing or approving anyone.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Speak well of your friend in public, admonish him in secret.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Be the first to laugh at your own blunder, and no one will laugh at you.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
It is robbery to receive a favor which you cannot return.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
To be always giving is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many more.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
When you forgive an enemy you gain many friends.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
The ready apology may be suspected of guilt.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
A flattering discourse carries its own poison.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Men will judge your past deeds by your last.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
Repeated pardons encourage offenses.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
You will gain your point better by moderation than anger.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
It is pleasant to do a favor for him who does not ask it.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
A small loan makes a debtor; a great one, an enemy.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
The evil you do to others you may expect in return.
Publius Syrus
Socializing
When one man is protected by law, all men are safe.
Publius Syrus
Society
To overthrow law is to destroy our greatest protection.
Publius Syrus
Society
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publius Syrus
Success
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Publius Syrus
Success
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publius Syrus
Success
When the wise man thinks, he arms himself against the assaults of the whole world.
Publius Syrus
Thinking
It is better to trust virtue than fortune.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
Put more confidence in your eyes than your ears
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
He who guards against calamities rarely meets them.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
He keeps furthest from danger who looks out while he is safe.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
Misfortune sometimes visits him whom she has often passed by.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
Neglect a danger and it will some time take you by surprise.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
Fortune masters us if we do not master her.
Publius Syrus
Uncertainty
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
Publius Syrus
Virtue
Never forget a favor received, be quick to forget a favor bestowed.
Publius Syrus
Virtue
False modesty is an embarrassment to every virtue.
Publius Syrus
Virtue
A man of courage never endures an insult, an honorable man never offers one.
Publius Syrus
Virtue
He benefits who will not injure when he can.
Publius Syrus
Virtue
Never thrust upon another the burden you cannot carry yourself.
Publius Syrus
Virtue
The greater our good fortune, the more likely to fail us.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
There is the greatest danger in guarding what the multitude covet.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
Money is a servant if you know how to use it; if not, it is a master.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
What has been received can be taken away.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
He who has prospered in life should stay at home.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
Even when we get what we wish, it is not ours.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
The less Fortune has given, the less can she take away.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
The gain acquired at the expense of reputation should be counted a loss.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
A good reputation is a good man's noblest inheritance.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
Our greatest gains are made by sparing what we possess.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
A good reputation is a second patrimony.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
How difficult is to keep the glory acquired.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
It is easier to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favors too much.
Publius Syrus
Wealth
The courage of the soldiers depends upon the wisdom of the general.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
When you are in love you are not wise; when you are wise you are not in love.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
It is a less evil to be unable to live than not to know how to live.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
He who makes shipwreck a second time does wrong to accuse Neptune.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
He bids fair to grow wise, who has discovered that he is not so.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
The wise man corrects his own errors by observing those of others.
Publius Syrus
Wisdom
The service is twofold greater when it is promptly rendered.
Publius Syrus
Work
A service is well rendered when the receiver can remember it.
Publius Syrus
Work
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publius Syrus
Work
Don't consider how many you can please, but whom.
Publius Syrus
Work
## Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Hay pocos lazos de amistad tan fuertes que no puedan ser cortados por un cabello de mujer.
#aphorism #friends #relationships
La ciencia de prolongar la vida consiste en no reducirla.
#aphorism #health #longevity #via_negativa
-Tengo una idea - decía un escritor demasiado reminiscente.
-¿De quién? - le atajó un amigo
#aphorism #knowledge
-Dime lo que lees y adivinaré lo que piensas.
-Es que no leo casi nunca
#aphorism #reading #knowledge
Nada más fácil que diferenciar en el orden político un inglés de un español. El primero cree que su primordial deber es mantener el Estado; mientras que el segundo cree que el Estado debe mantenerle a él.
#aphorism #politics
## Enrique García-Máiquez
La distancia entre un buen aforismo y uno malo, aunque abismal, es mínima. Como entre el ganador de los 100 metros lisos y el resto.
#aphorism #meta_aphorism
Escribir con tijeras: leer con pinzas.
#aphorism #writing #reading
Si aplauden tu inconformismo y tu rebeldía, no eres rebelde ni inconformista.
#aphorism #paradox
Lo interesante de los que hablan mucho de sí mismos es lo que se callan.
#aphorism #awareless #self
Cuando uno se arrepiente de haber sido bueno, fue tonto, no bueno.
#aphorism #fools
Solo podemos hablar con quien podemos estar en silencio.
#aphorism #silence #relationships
Es el olvido, no el tiempo, el que lo aleja todo.
#aphorism #time #forget
Se tienen cuarenta años desde los treinta y cinco hasta los sesenta.
#aphorism #age
Las arrugas son más profundas que las cicatrices.
#aphorism #wisdom #age
## Kahlil Gibran
Muchas doctrinas son como el cristal de una ventana. Vemos la verdad a través de él, pero nos separa de la verdad.
#aphorism #truth
La generosidad no consiste en darme lo que necesito más que tú, sino en darme aquello que necesitas más que yo.
#aphorism #virtue
Si sólo puedes ver lo que la luz revela y oír lo que el sonido anuncia, entonces, verdaderamente, ni ves ni oyes.
#aphorism #awareless
Me dicen: "Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando".
Pero yo digo: "Una pluma vale más volando que ciento en mano".
El correr tras esa pluma es la vida con pies alados; es la vida misma.
#aphorism #desire #passion #career #work
La tortuga puede contar más cosas del camino que la liebre.
#aphorism #slow_life
Si revelas tu secreto al viento, no deberías culparle por contárselo a los árboles.
#aphorism #secret
Solamente siento interés por un malabarista cuando, al tratar de coger la bola, falla.
#aphorism #paradox
## Joan Fuster
La mayoría de edad se alcanza cuando el hijo comienza a sentir compasión por el padre.