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 AuthorThe concern for thinking well is not only of interest to philosophers, but also to the simplest of people.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorLaziness, that is, the passion for inaction, has, to triumph, an advantage over other passions, and that is that it demands nothing.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorTime is the only capital of people who have nothing but their intelligence for fortune.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorAll power is a permanent conspiracy.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorPower does not consist in hitting often or frequently, but in hitting at the right time.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorThe thought is the key to all treasures; the gains of the miser are ours without his worries.
Honoré de Balzac
View AuthorWe are very strong when we acknowledge our weakness.
Henri Barbusse
View AuthorIt is by attempting the impossible that the possible is achieved.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorLet's leave the conclusions for the idiots.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorMan: a millimeter above the monkey when not a centimeter below the pig.
Pío Baroja
View AuthorEven though we have evidence that we are to live constantly in darkness and gloom, without purpose and without end, we must have hope.