Daniel Salamanca Quotes

“It is very easy to be a skilled man at the head of a powerful country. The difficult thing is to be one when representing a weak country.”

“The political friend of today is the possible enemy of tomorrow. And vice versa. All those who work by a calculation of interest in politics must take that into account. Neither give your secrets to the friend nor give the adversary blows that cannot be forgotten.”

“In general, past things come to be in the memory not as they were, but as we would like or how we wanted them to have been.”

“Our politics is a field from which morality is completely exiled.”

“What is not ephemeral in individual life, if life itself is fleeting like a dream.”

“From the ruins of a collapsing cause, the dust of recriminations always rises.”

“The most talented man, as he has been told many times, does a hundred foolish things in his life.”

“From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.”

“In some grocery stores there is an expressive sign that says: Today I don't trust, tomorrow I do. I have some desire to compare that sign the promises of happiness that life gives us.”

“In established interests are the most powerful force of resistance to good.”

“Every time we experience a misfortune or a setback, we need to find a culprit. We accuse the wind if there is no other.”

“All those who are not criticized, err. Those who are not watched, abuse. Those who are spoiled, become fat. Those who are applauded, are puffed up. A true superiority of spirit is needed to save oneself from those consequences.”

“The smallest evil that is inflicted on us seems to us a monstrous and horrible injustice. On the contrary, we are willing to consider the evils of others' light and to excuse and mitigate the injustices suffered by them.”

“We don't have to complain about human selfishness: everyone cares about us, and even our enemies would like to correct our defects.”

“Everyone is sensitive to pain: only the various kinds of misfortunes affect everyone differently and to varying degrees.”

“It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand.”

“As night is coming and my strength is exhausted, with no hope of anything better, I have only to display the meager harvest that I have accidentally picked.”