"Entendia que há larga ponderação de males e bens, e que a arte de viver consiste em tirar o maior bem do maior mal."
— Machado de Assis

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Iaiá Garcia (1878) ch. 3; Albert I. Bagby, Jr. (trans.) Iaiá Garcia (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1977) p. 23.