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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

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

—E.B. White, 1958

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

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

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

—Denis Diderot, 1774

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

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

—Terence, 163 BC

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.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655