Diego Arellano

“Keynes did not teach us how to perform the “miracle . . . of turning a stone into bread,”[4] but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom

“Passions may do good by chance, but there can be no merit but in the conquest of them.”
― Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits: Exploring Self-Interest and Societal Progress in the Enlightenment Era

“First, to define the passion of shame, I think it may be called a sorrowful reflection on our own unworthiness, proceeding from an apprehension that others either do, or might, if they knew all, deservedly despise us.”
― Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees; Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits: Exploring Self-Interest and Societal Progress in the Enlightenment Era

“Men set very great store by pensions and doles, and for these they hire out their labor or service or effort.   But no one sets a value on time; all use it lavishly as if it cost nothing.  But see how these same people clasp the knees of physicians if they fall ill and the danger of death draws nearer, see how ready they are, if threatened with capital punishment, to spend all their possessions in order to live!  So great is the inconsistency of their feelings.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life