It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shou… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

With a long enough lever, the world could be moved with a single finger; to sustain it needs the shoulders of Hercules

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.

Personas de reconocida integridad colocadas en situaciones difíciles, maridos engañados> mujeres seducidas, partos clandestinos, he aquí los asuntos más comunes; y el que más enriquecía la Casa de Expósitos era siempre el más aplaudido.

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.