А стига бе! - каза Белбо.Само пиемонтец може да разбере чувството, което се влага в този израз на учтиво удивление. Нито един от неговите еквиваленти на други езици или диалекти не бимогъл да възпроиз...
Único problema serio para el buen ciudadano es no pagar los impuestos, y luego que los que mandan hagan lo que quieran;
Çocukluk yıllarım boyunca, tanıştığım bütün insanların, kaderin bir oyunu olarak, ahmak olduğuna inanmıştım.
« Les hommes ne font jamais le mal aussi complètement et ardemment que lorsqu'ils le font par conviction religieuse. » (p. 26)
When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies...
Traición. Y es que siempre pasa lo mismo, cuando fracasas en algo, buscas siempre alguien a quien acusar de tu incapacidad. Pero qué traición, me decía, es que no sabéis cómo se combate, pues anda que...
Ogives
Hay que valerse de la risa para desarmar la seriedad de los oponentes, y a la risa, en cambio, oponer la seriedad.
El individuo pasa de un consumo a otro en una especie de bulimia sin objetivo (el nuevo teléfono móvil nos ofrece poquísimas prestaciones nuevas respecto al viejo, pero el viejo tiene que ir al desgua...
You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if...
You live on the surface, Lia told me years later. You sometimes seem profound, but it's only because you piece a lot of surfaces together to create the impression of depth, solidity. That solidity wou...
Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
Tu sei il diavolo, disse allora Guglielmo.Jorge parve non capire. Se fosse stato veggente direi che avrebbe fissato il suo interlocutore con sguardo attonito. Io? disse.Sì, ti hanno mentito. Il diavol...
Todo concepto filosófico, tomado en su sentido más genérico, explica cualquier cosa.
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window andhits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live bytheir ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I’m a cat that hit...
The trouble is, I said, I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lomba...
The flame consists of a splendid clarity, of an unusual vigor, and od an ingenious ardor, but possesses the splendid clarity that it may illuminate and the ingenious ardor that it may burn.
Poor boy, the libertine then said, he builds machines to count the infinite, and we have terrified him with the eternal silence of too many infinities. Voila, the end of a fine vocation.
Os homens nunca praticam o mal tão completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por convicção religiosa.
Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.