Jaime Luciano Balmes Quotes

I convinced myself that to doubt everything is to lack the most precise of human reasoning, which is common sense.

Firm will is not the same as energetic will, much less impetuous will.

The act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.

Woe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!

Labor is a natural title to the property of the fruits of it, and legislation that does not respect that principle is inherently unjust.

Certain men have the talent to see a lot in everything. But they are unfortunate to see everything that is not there, and nothing of what is there.

The concern for thinking well is not only of interest to philosophers, but also to the simplest of people.

Laziness, that is, the passion for inaction, has, to triumph, an advantage over other passions, and that is that it demands nothing.