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No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

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

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

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

—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BC

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

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

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

—Mark Twain, 1879

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

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

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.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

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

—Evelyn Waugh, 1938
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