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

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

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

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

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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