A Colombian thinker, tragically little known in the US, and to myself as well until recently. Nearly 3,000 of his aphorisms are translated into English here:
http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/
Examples:
“The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it.”
“The fragments of the past that survive embarrass the modern landscape in which they stand out.”
“Man never calculates the price of any comfort he gains.”
“The vice which afflicts the right is cynicism, and that which afflicts the left is deceit.”
Mind Control Device 