The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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