If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.