“He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.”

“He who has a choice has trouble.”

“When one friend washes another both become clean.”

“He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.”

“God does not pay weekly but he pays at the end.”

“To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be e...”

“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.”