Frases de Jean-Baptiste Say

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“A nadie le es permitido llegar a los confines de la ciencia. Los sabios suben a las espaldas unos de otros para explorar con la mirada un horizonte que se pierde de vista.”

“El vicio no es más que el sacrificio del porvenir al presente.”

“La venganza es un bocado de rey, pero conviene irse con tiento porque es un bocado indigesto.”

“Entre un pensador y un erudito existe la misma diferencia que entre un libro y su índice.”

“El estilo es al pensamiento lo que la filosofia al rostro. No podrá embellecer un pensamiento falso; pero hace más viva y más interesante una idea noble.”

“Como el miedo es el mayor suplicio de los tiranos, el crimen más irremisible a sus ojos, es hacerles sentir miedo.”

“Dominion by land or sea will appear equally destitute of attraction, when it comes to be generally understood, that all its advantages rest with the rulers, and that the subjects at large derive no benefit whatever.”

“A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.”

“When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.”

“The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.”

“A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.”

“Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!”

“The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.”

“A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.”

“One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.”

“capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.”

“Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity.”