José Faustino Sánchez Carrión

 

José Faustino Sánchez Carrión

 

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José Faustino Sánchez Carrión (*Huamachuco, Trujillo, February 13, 1787 - Lurín, Lima, June 2, 1825), was a pro-independence politician from Peru. Also known as the "Solitario de Sayán" (English: "Solitary man from Sayán"), he had a decisive role in the establishment of the republican system of government in post-independence Peru. He was one of the writers of the first political constitution of Peru, of liberal tendencies. He later participated in the diplomatic mission which traveled to Guayaquil to invite Simon Bolivar to Peru. He died prematurely, victim of an unknown sickness.

Sánchez Carrión severed as Bolivar's secretary or general minister, accompanying him throughout his victorious campaign in Peruvian soil and acquiring the necessary resources needed by the United Liberating Army (composed by the Expedición Libertadora del Perú, Gran Colombia, and the Republic of Peru) which emerged victorious in the battles of Junin and Ayacucho. He was Minister of Finance of Peru from April 1824 to October 1824.^[2] Afterwards, he served from 1824 to 1825 as Peru's Minister of Government and Foreign Relations, and as such signed the invitations written by Simon Bolivar for the American nation's attendance to the Congress of Panama. 

 

Watercolor by Bernardo O'Higgins, The Numancia Battalion receives the Flag of the Liberation Army when crossing the Huaura Bridge. December 1820

With affection,

Ruben

 

 

Aphorisms: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Aphorisms

Brief and doctrinal sentence that is proposed as a rule in a science or art.

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Germany: 1749-1832

 

 

 

 

1. Sometimes our destiny resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would have thought that those branches would green up and bloom? More we hope that it will be so, and we know that it will be so.

2. Fortunately, man can only understand a certain degree of misfortune; beyond this degree, misfortune annihilates him or leaves him indifferent.

 3. Acting is easy, thinking is difficult; acting as you think is even more difficult.

 4. Artist! Plasm! Do not speak!

5. It is indeed good to acquire, but it is much better to keep

. 6. Understanding means being able to do.

 7. Certain books seem to have been written not to learn from them, but to recognize what their author knew.

 8. With knowledge doubts are accredited.

 9. Against stupidity, even the gods fight in vain.

 10. What is the best government? The one who teaches us to govern ourselves.

 11. When man does not find himself, he does not find anything.

 12. We must give up our existence to truly exist.

13. Where interest is lost, memory is also lost.

 14. Art is the safest means of isolating oneself from the world as well as of penetrating it.

 15. The coward only threatens when he is safe.

16. The human spirit advances continuously, but always in a spiral.

17. The happy man is one who, being king or peasant, finds peace in his home.

 18. The man who feels fear without danger invents the danger to justify his fear.

 19. Evil is only in your mind and not in the external. The pure mind always sees only the good in everything, but the bad one is in charge of inventing the bad.

 20. The closest to perfection is the one who, with a penetrating gaze, declares himself limited.

 21. The child is realistic; the boy, idealistic; the man, skeptic, and the old mystic.

 22. The organ with which I have understood the world has been the eye.

 23. He who with insight recognizes the limitation of his faculties, he is very close to reaching perfection.

 24. Talent is educated in calm, and character in the storm.

 25. At a given moment in life, we die without being buried. Our destiny has been fulfilled. The world is full of dead people, although she ignores it.

 26.

 The one who has nothing to lose is dangerous.

 27. This is the last conclusion of wisdom: freedom and life are deserved if they are conquers them every day.

 28.

 We are here to make the perishable imperishable; and this can happen only if you know how to value both things.

 29. Happy is he who recognizes in time that his wishes are not in accordance with his faculties.

 30. There are two peaceful powers: right and cunning.

 

With affection,

Ruben