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

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

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.