“A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.”

“Why should you think it so strange that in some countries there are monkeys which insinuates themselves into the good graces of the ladies; they are a fourth part human, as I am a fourth part Spaniard.”

“It is not improbable that in hot countries, monkeys may have enslaved girls.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.”

“But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”