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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

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

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

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

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

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

—L.P. Hartley, 1953

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

—Denis Diderot, 1774

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

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

—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

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

—E.B. White, 1958
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