The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.