Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorI convinced myself that to doubt everything is to lack the most precise of human reasoning, which is common sense.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorFirm will is not the same as energetic will, much less impetuous will.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorThe act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorWoe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorReason is a monarch condemned to continually struggle with the rebellious passions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorIt is difficult to say how much courtesy and amiability reconcile human spirits when speaking.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThe happy and blissful life is the sole object of all philosophy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorFalsehood is so close to the truth that the prudent man should not place himself on slippery ground.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorNature has instilled in our minds an insatiable desire to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThere is nothing made by the hand of man that time does not eventually destroy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThere is no man of any nation who, having taken nature as his guide, cannot reach the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorAll actions performed without ostentation and without witnesses seem more commendable to me.