In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but … - Machado de Assis

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We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

Machado de Assis

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

Book, Government, Grip, Idea, Style, Writing

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.

Art, Balance, Evil, Felt

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

Fighting, Life, Organism, Sea, Strive, Universal

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

Badly, Dream, Kindness, Life

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

Giving, Ideas, Legs, Longest, Nothing, Smallest