All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.