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Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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

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Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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

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Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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

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Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have committed the worst sin one can commit. I have not been happy.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Death is a lived life. Life is a coming death.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Beauty is that beautiful mystery that neither psychology nor rhetoric can decipher.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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All theories are legitimate and none of them are important. What matters is what you do with them.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Before, distances were greater because space is measured by time.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Those who say that art should not propagate doctrines usually refer to doctrines contrary to theirs.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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One must be careful when choosing enemies because one ends up resembling them.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing without mystery is happiness, because it justifies itself.

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