Henry F. Amiel
View AuthorThe beautiful is superior to the sublime, because it is permanent and does not satiate, while the sublime is relative, fleeting, and violent.
Henry F. Amiel
View AuthorTake care of your reputation, not out of vanity, but to not harm your work, and out of love for the truth.
Henry F. Amiel
View AuthorDoubt in love ends up making one doubt everything.
Anne of Austria
View AuthorWhen the voice of an enemy accuses, the silence of a friend condemns.
Anacarsis
View AuthorMany times laws are like spider webs: small insects are caught in them; the large ones break them.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorPowerful states can only be sustained by crime. Small states are virtuous only because they are weak.
Mikhail Bakunin
View AuthorThe state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.
Baldwin I
View AuthorIt takes twenty or more years of peace to make a man, and twenty seconds of war are enough to destroy him.
James Baldwin
View AuthorAbove talent are common values: discipline, love, good luck, but above all, tenacity.
James Baldwin
View AuthorThe war would end if the dead could come back.
James Baldwin
View AuthorChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never stopped imitating them.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorEven good feelings, if excessively exalted, are capable of leading us to deplorable errors.