Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
I do not understand/The way of foreigners/But I do not despise their customs./Why should you despise yours?
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
God is the relegated and lazy sovereign of a constitutional monarchy, where Satan serves as Prime Minister.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.