"That will happen as long as you think that way, as long as fear and prudence are synonyms.

More attention is paid to a possible evil than to a necessary good.

At once fear, and not confidence, presents itself; each one thinks only of himself, no one thinks of the rest, and therefore we are all weak!" "Well then, think of others before yourself and you'll see how they'll leave you in the lurch.

Don't you know the proverb, 'Charity begins at home' ?" "You had better say," replied the exasperated teniente-mayor, "that cowardice begins in selfishness and ends in shame! This very day I'm going to hand in my resignation to the alcalde.

I'm tired of passing for a joke without being useful to anybody.