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

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

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

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

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

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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.

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

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.