We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.