Machado de Assis quote: "He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil."

Lovers' language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like....
MACHADO DE ASSIS

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to ...
MACHADO DE ASSIS

Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wis...
MACHADO DE ASSIS

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from ...
MACHADO DE ASSIS

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.
MACHADO DE ASSIS

We kill time; time buries us
JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE ASSIS

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
ANTONIO MACHADO

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
AARON MACHADO

Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems
ROMANA MACHADO

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
ANTONIO MACHADO

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get ...
ROB MACHADO

You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If t...
ROB MACHADO

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentaw...
ROB MACHADO

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
ANTONIO MACHADO

Telecoms are rising because they are the most liquid; the stocks foreigners will buy when they come ...
ANTONIO MACHADO

These next days are crucial to see who is participating in the auctions. Everyone is waiting.
ANTONIO MACHADO

It's a no-news day so we've been tied to the behavior of Latin American markets and U.S. indexes. Vo...
ANTONIO MACHADO

It's a no-news day so we've been tied to the behavior of Latin American markets and U.S. indexes, .....
ANTONIO MACHADO

The situation is very delicate.
ANTONIO MACHADO

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
ANTONIO MACHADO

Telecoms are rising because they are the most liquid; the stocks foreigners will buy when they come ...
ANTONIO MACHADO

There's nothing much special going on today, just some profit-taking.
ANTONIO MACHADO

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
ANTONIO MACHADO

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
ANTONIO MACHADO

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in a...
ALICIA MACHADO

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
ALICIA MACHADO

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but ...
ALICIA MACHADO

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.
ALICIA MACHADO

Every day I am trying to improve my life.
ALICIA MACHADO

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feel...
ALICIA MACHADO

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
ALICIA MACHADO

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the cul...
ALICIA MACHADO

I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.
ALICIA MACHADO

One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; i...
ROB MACHADO

BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean...
ALICIA MACHADO

Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in lo...
ALICIA MACHADO

When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling;...
JUSTINA MACHADO

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
ANTONIO MACHADO

I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that...
JUSTINA MACHADO

[Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO

Even so, they are still better than last season, ... The midfield is very strong with Ricardo Quares...
CARLOS MACHADO

He's been doing it for a while. He has the experience. I have no idea why he went out during the sto...
CARLOS MACHADO

They have ambitions of reaching at least the knockout phase and will be confident of getting there.
CARLOS MACHADO

I was standing with my friends at the coat check line when we heard two shots. We didn't think anyth...
CARLOS MACHADO

Even so, they are still better than last season, ... The midfield is very strong with Ricardo Quares...
CARLOS MACHADO

[Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
AARON MACHADO

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.
ANTONIO MACHADO

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of ...
ROB MACHADO

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is mad...
ANTONIO MACHADO

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob M...
ROB MACHADO

This was all about the external markets. We were following the Nasdaq.
ANTONIO MACHADO

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant
ANTONIO MACHADO

Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses an...
ROB MACHADO

You deserve respect or get respect you earn it with a true heart
CHRIS MACHADO

Hearts so pure,it will keep pumping long after I am dead
CHRIS MACHADO

A man live's to hear what they say at his funeral
CHRIS MACHADO

You get what you give out of life
CHRIS MACHADO

You dont got to be the best, you just got to want it more than the next mother fucker
CHRIS MACHADO

[Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO

today is over. thats what it seems but is alright i will see you in my dreams
CHRIS MACHADO

The market continues waiting on news out of Argentina.
ANTONIO MACHADO

We are adjusting to the American market today.
ANTONIO MACHADO

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking
ANTONIO MACHADO

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to ...
ANTONIO MACHADO

I have never worked as I am now doing.
ANTONIO MACHADO

It really depends what happens abroad.
ANTONIO MACHADO

The stronger real helped a lot. Investors' money is still flowing to stocks from fixed-rate instrume...
ANTONIO MACHADO

You suck at life.
CHRIS MACHADO

When life gives you lemons, say Fuck that i order apples. Dont take anything but apples.
CHRIS MACHADO

Anything to make her heart smile
CHRIS MACHADO

You keep your word, you keep your honor
CHRIS MACHADO

I don't eat Puerto Rican food in L.A. because it's just too much, too addicting, but I know ...
JUSTINA MACHADO

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I ...
CHINA MACHADO

[Like Rangers, their attacking options are offset by an untested defence.] They are not as good in d...
CARLOS MACHADO

Even so, they are still better than last season, ... The midfield is very strong with Ricardo Quares...
CARLOS MACHADO

I talked with the coach when I went up there and they said they'd love to have me because they're go...
GIO MACHADO

As a football coach, you always try to find a way to make your kids smile when they take the field. ...
GEORGE MACHADO

The biggest difference between this week and previous weeks is that we absolutely came prepared to p...
GEORGE MACHADO

In the past they have struggled with our speed and quickness. We still have that speed.
GEORGE MACHADO

When we dropped to 2-4, we knew we needed to win our last three games to qualify. We won the first o...
GEORGE MACHADO

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were...
ANTONIO MACHADO

It's taken us 20 years, but it's going to make us more efficient.
MARC MACHADO

We have diversified with our milling machine.
MARC MACHADO

It's not a good thing when you get too comfortable. You tend to get a little lazy. It was really mot...
MARC MACHADO

Chris had a great outing. They're a good hitting team, but Chris kept them at bay and kept us in the...
JUSTIN MACHADO

Wow. That should tell you how we played right there. Leaving that many runners on base is never a go...
JUSTIN MACHADO

He pitched really well today. He's been efficient all year. When he goes to the mound, he will keep ...
JUSTIN MACHADO

(Slater) called me this morning and told me to go right. But I wasn't buying it. I thought the lefts...
ROB MACHADO

The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of devel...
LUIS ALBERT MACHADO

A feeling settles over me—a one-beer-deep feeling, a no-more-skittering-feet-after-the-trap-snaps ...
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her...
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

She’s like dough, how the give of it beneath kneading hands disguises its sturdiness, its potentia...
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

I was a creature so small, trapped in some crevice of an indifferent universe.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

Beyond the table, there is an altar, with candles lit for Billie Holiday and Willa Carter and Hypati...
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU

There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD

We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE

Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES

There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE

To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA

Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON

I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON

I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON

Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN

It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN

We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN

All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD

One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES

How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN

It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE

Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY

The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY

Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES

Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE)

Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY)

A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES

The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL

I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL

I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO

I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO

Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO

I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO

I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO

Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN

I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN

Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT

I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name o...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally de...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

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He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

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