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Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Terrible is the error when it usurps the name of science.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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One should read a lot, but not many books; this is an excellent rule.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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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.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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When many remedies are suggested for a single ailment, it means that it cannot be cured.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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Works of art are divided into two categories: those I like and those I don't like. I don't know any other criteria.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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I confess that burying some people is a great pleasure.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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The common man expects the good and the bad from the outside, the thinking man expects it from himself.