Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui Quotes

Sometimes you have to give up one good in order to get another good.

Nothing is more reasonable than to resolve to bear with an evil, from which a greater good must certainly arise.

We make choices every single day of our lives and those choices mean we must give up something in exchange for another. In economics it's called an 'opportunity cost.'

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

There's always a price for what you want.

so long as it promises to exclude some greater possible evils.

We respond to the unknown by trying to retreat from it, or trying to comprehend it, or trying to control it. The first approach is evident in longings for return to a simpler "risk-free" life that never was. The second is reflected in the fantasy of synoptic risk assessment: Measure the requisite probabilities and trade-offs, calculate the social risk-benefit function, and the common good will have been defined. The third approach is in the tradition of professional engineering. It serves us well but, as engineers have been among the first to point out, has met its match and more in the complex social problems it increasingly is called upon to address.

Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

Often, when we support the 'right' causes and candidates, we fail to recognize that with progress comes sacrifice. That sacrifice might mean that you are no longer the obvious choice for the job. Your job security may no longer be a given.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Nothing comes without a price.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Every advantage has its tax.