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

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

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects 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.

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.

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

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

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.