"Men go abroad to wonder at the..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.”

“The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.”

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.”

“The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me”

“I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his key.And of course there must be something wrongIn wanting to silence any song.”

“When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.”

“In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.”

“I think all of us are agreed that war is probably man's greatest stupidity and I think peace is the dream that lives in the heart of everyone wherever he may be in the world, but unfortunately, unlike a family quarrel, it doesn't take two to make a war. It only takes one, unless the other one is prepared to surrender at the first hint of force.”

“When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.”